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So we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing? | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up"
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How much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning? | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?"
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he needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?"
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the fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few."
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Republican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken."
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It must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?"
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I miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes."
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he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees
Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
Yeah, he's hoping this will just blow over. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection."
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This guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over."
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So, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ? | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress."
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Wouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public."
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Since he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :
"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees"
As being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over"
Fucken rats. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee."
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It just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him."
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The title got me excited at first, damn.
"Santos steps down...." | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\""
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MSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality)."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work."
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I actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others....."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent."
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It would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!” | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work...."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\""
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP"
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Lmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\""
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes.",
">\n\nTypical republican... lie, cheat, and steal to get power at any and all costs"
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The only questions he'll get now are "Did Hannah Montana like you?" and "What was it like walking on the moon?". He will go down in history as the biggest liar ever... surpassing the current record holder, donald trump. | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes.",
">\n\nTypical republican... lie, cheat, and steal to get power at any and all costs",
">\n\nNow we need Florida Gov. Ron Santos to step down as well."
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes.",
">\n\nTypical republican... lie, cheat, and steal to get power at any and all costs",
">\n\nNow we need Florida Gov. Ron Santos to step down as well.",
">\n\nThe only questions he'll get now are \"Did Hannah Montana like you?\" and \"What was it like walking on the moon?\". He will go down in history as the biggest liar ever... surpassing the current record holder, donald trump."
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nope.. not even this guy
McCarthy sure won't | [
"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes.",
">\n\nTypical republican... lie, cheat, and steal to get power at any and all costs",
">\n\nNow we need Florida Gov. Ron Santos to step down as well.",
">\n\nThe only questions he'll get now are \"Did Hannah Montana like you?\" and \"What was it like walking on the moon?\". He will go down in history as the biggest liar ever... surpassing the current record holder, donald trump.",
">\n\nDoes this mean we're going to hold politicians accountable for lying now, or just this guy?"
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"Still getting his $174,000 ($6,692 pre-tax every two weeks) paycheck currently. He will not leave Congress voluntarily. Why would he? Now, he can pretend to do even less.",
">\n\nHe’ll still get to be a lobbyist or work at a think tank after too.",
">\n\nAny think tank that would hire him at this point is failing to do any thinking. \nMy bet is that he ends up as a reoccurring guest talking head over on Fox.",
">\n\nThey’re absolutely going to hire him. Look at his resume:\nCongressman\nFirst astronaut to walk on Jupiter \nTaught Jesus carpentry \nSurgically reconnected Stonewall Jackson’s arm. \nSuccessfully reanimated said arm, leading to the influence for Thing of the Addams Family. \nHe literally does it all.",
">\n\nThey need to put a new subheading under his name every time he’s on: “Inventor of Question mark”, “First Female Astronaut”, “Founding member of Simon & Garfunkel & Santos”.",
">\n\nThere really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it’s breathtaking",
">\n\nReally helps you get into the mood for a Brazilian drag show",
">\n\nI wish I was as passionate about something in my life like the way George Santos is passionate about lying.",
">\n\nMay someone someday look at you the way George Santos looks at an absolutely outrageous falsehood.",
">\n\n.....like he wants to fuck it?????",
">\n\nHe says he doesnt... but he's been known to lie before.",
">\n\nJorge Santos life is a whole fucking lie",
">\n\nHow many lies has this guy made so far getting into his position? I'm surprised he doesn't have any sexual harassment or abuse cases coming out of the woodwork yet",
">\n\nWould be great if we caught this stuff before the person won their election. Now the republicans will protect him no matter what because they know he’ll vote however they want to avoid losing his job.",
">\n\nShame all the investigative journalists that used to do that kind of thing, don't exist any longer. Billionaires gutting media companies has a trickle effect across society.",
">\n\nGosh, you'd think the elite liberal media would have used the full brunt of their liberal propaganda machine to broadcast these horrible slanders against a fearlessly honest Republican 24/7 all through election day! Why didn't they do that? 🤔",
">\n\nNo one claimed it was a competent elite liberal media...",
">\n\n\"8. The disciples of Fascism must feel humiliated by the enemy’s wealth and power, but feel nonetheless that they can defeat the enemy. The enemy is both too strong and too weak.\"\n--The 14 Signs of Fascism, Umberto Eco",
">\n\nHi friend, that reference actually comes from Ur Fascism (Eternal Fascism), an essay by Eco.\nThe 14 points are part of it tho. \nA scary and prescient part at that.\nHere's a link for anyone that is interested in reading, it's free!",
">\n\nHe steps down? He never should have been put on any committee in the first place. There should have been a vote for expulsion immediately after his lies were brought to light.\nIt just goes to show how corrupt the GOP has become.",
">\n\nThey put the lady who claimed that forest fires were being started by Jewish space lasers on a committee, while also saying that a bunch of Democrats were too radical to be on committees, because they investigated Donald Trump's wrongdoing.",
">\n\nShe’s started to (attempt to) rehab her image by saying things like “lol I got swept in up some online drama 😅”, as if the lack of critical thinking and judgment that led to getting “caught up” in that isn’t the core issue.",
">\n\n\"I thought it was just another party\"\n\"Really? You didn't notice the giant red flags?\"\n\"I don't know what you mean\"\n\"The Nazi Flags!\"\n\"I did notsee the flags, yes\"",
">\n\nThis quote is commonly used to describe individuals such as MTG, and it's wholly appropriate.\n\nNever believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.\n\n\nJean-Paul Sartre",
">\n\nI actually altered this a bit, as to not be so on the nose calling people antismetic, and this is more how the GOP and conservatives operate. \n\"Never believe that people without truth are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The distractors have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”\nFeel free to use it.",
">\n\n\nthey will abruptly fall silent, \n\nif only.",
">\n\nOh they do. Ask them questions and they call you names or my favorite, \"Look it up yourself, you need to do more research.\"",
">\n\nThat's not falling silent, that's moving goal posts, moving to ad hominem attacks, straight gaslighting, concoct tangential strawmen, engage in whataboutisms, etc. The last thing the do is actually fall silent. The worse their position becomes the louder they get. YMMV.",
">\n\nYou're not understanding. I'm saying when you confront them. In the moment. Not that they aren't a loud ass bunch. At some point they just say, I'm done arguing. Hence, fall silent. Also, look it up yourself is the phrase they use to say they are done arguing as well.",
">\n\nNot wanting to state the obvious, but when I apply for anything, especially a job, there is always a section that you have to agree that your application is truthful and accurate. If not, there is threats about legality issues.\nHow. Does. This. Guy. Still. Have. A. Job????????????????\nEdit to add something as there are a lot of people saying that he was not hired but was instead elected to represent a district. I look at it this way, if you were elected to serve the people, and you are getting a salary with a team of staffers, and office and including awesome healthcare, then by definition, that is a job. He was elected yes... but he is not doing it for free.",
">\n\nThis is the part that confuses the hell out of me. It's majority SoP in the US that most standard everyday job applicants (and definitely for federal employees) have a background check that includes verification of claimed degrees/licenses and prior employment. Sometimes that includes a credit check. Specific federal/govt positions that require security clearance are even more stringent. So how did someone seeking a position of power and influence that impacts so many people manage to attain a seat in Congress with no apparent background check?",
">\n\nThe answer I always get is that people vote them in, so if they weren't qualified, people wouldn't vote for them. Same with a criminal history. If people don't like their crimes, they won't vote for them. \nI think every prospective member of Congress and every presidential candidate and VP should be required to pass a background check.",
">\n\nSounds great.\nWho administers the background check? Presumably it would be law enforcement, right? The Executive branch?\nNow imagine Trump's administration running a background check on Biden during the 2020 general election and declaring him ineligible to run because spins wheel of reasons let's say Hunter Biden's laptop.\nAnd that leads him to win re-election.\nDoesn't sound so great any more.",
">\n\nI guess we should just give up then",
">\n\nOr redefine your proposal as something with an objective standard that can't be easily manipulated by a corrupt administration.",
">\n\nI don't think it's that complicated, or at least it shouldn't be. In this particular case (Santos), it would have taken minimal effort to simply confirm whether he held the graduate degrees he claimed, the former employment roles he claimed, and run a credit check. Small HR shops across the country do it on the regular. Maybe they can hire one of them to manage it.",
">\n\nIt's not that it's complicated, it's that it's rife for corruption. We go through the same thing with the proposals of tests for mental competency. If you enshrine into law a process whereby an incumbent can declare his challenger mentally unfit to be elected, or allow him to replace a member of the opposing faction, it's going to be abused. Think Trump declaring Kagan and Sotomayor mentally unsound and booting them off the Supreme Court. Or removing McCain in response to his vote to preserve the ACA, thus allowing Arizona to replace him with a compliant Senator who rubber-stamps Trump's legislation.",
">\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life. At the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience. This simple step might have raised the necessary red flags on Santos when there was still time to disqualify him as a candidate.",
">\n\n\nI think this confuses the standard candidate fact checking that's conducted based on resume claims (basic admin stuff) with a deep dive into other more subjective elements of an applicant's / candidate's life.\n\nIt's basic admin stuff for a private company because they're the ones in control of hiring. This is an election. The voters ultimately make the decision.\n\nAt the very minimum there should be confirmation that an individual hasn't lied about their degrees and former employment / professional experience.\n\nIf you sign this standard into law, you're begging for an August 2028 headline on the order of \"DeSantis Administration Finds Buttigieg Ineligible For Presidency\" on the grounds of not publicly declaring that he mowed lawns for his neighbors as a teenager.",
">\n\nInvestigate. <— we are here\nIndict. \nImprison.",
">\n\nYou skipped a step. Prolong investigation until sept / oct of '24. Then drop bombshell finding that slams.",
">\n\n....\nAnd then never actually have trump see the inside of a cell, courtroom, or face any actual consequences.",
">\n\nSantos needs to step down from Congress.",
">\n\n...and then go to jail.",
">\n\nWhite? Rich? Privileged? \n(not gonna happen...)",
">\n\nA CBS poll found that 78% of his/her constituents want him/her to resign.",
">\n\nIn a shocking twist, the remaining 22% turn out to be George Santos himself voting multiple times in the poll.",
">\n\nEach vote is filed under one of the 2mil pseudonyms this guy made up in his career.",
">\n\nI think this guy will end up fleeing the country. He's proof a foreign government can weaponize Citizen United to the extent they have their own member in the House. He is proof there are no safety nets left for democracy if Citizens United remains standing.",
">\n\nGood point",
">\n\nHow many Scaramuccis was that?",
">\n\nAlways love the Mooches time scale",
">\n\nIf that’s his real name.",
">\n\nIt's actually Kitara Ravache.",
">\n\nHis first name is Lyle",
">\n\nLyle Detyme? I think I met him once.",
">\n\nWait, did he really step down or is he just claiming he stepped down? I don’t know if any of you have noticed, but sometimes there are these really subtle inconsistencies between what he says and what he does. You really have to look carefully, but sometimes theres this ever-so-slight “hint” of insincerity that is visible in just the right light.",
">\n\nIf he was a Democrat and this shit was uncovered, he would have been ousted in a week. Both parties are the same my ass.",
">\n\nThe fact that after all the lies, he was STILL appointed to committees (plural) at all shows that the Republicans are desperate and have nobody left with integrity in their party to legislate. \nNot sure if that's more sad or scary, but it should probably worry conservatives that they're being represented by a lying freshman under criminal investigation.",
">\n\nThe poster child of your Republican Party.",
">\n\nHis wife must be Morgan Fairchild.",
">\n\nYeah that’s the ticket!\nSpeaking of ticket, maybe he just needs more time for his VP run on the Trump ticket",
">\n\nThe fact that he got assignments in the first place is an indictment of Republicans(not that they care).",
">\n\nWhat? Comeuppance already? Not in 2023 surely. Well I'll be damned...",
">\n\nvlad putin called him up to lead the russian forces since he did such a great job of breaking the siege of leningrad.",
">\n\nGood, now he can focus on his cure for cancer.",
">\n\nIf George Santos cures cancer, does the whole GOP disappear?",
">\n\nNo, unfortunately 😔 We will probably need to deal with current scotus even longer than we might have with cures like that",
">\n\nOdds on him taking a vacation overseas and not coming back?",
">\n\nThe reverse Bolsonaro?",
">\n\nSounds dirty.",
">\n\nThe best part is Lovitz went on Fallon recently to play George Santos.",
">\n\n“Temporarily”\nSeriously though this dude committed federal crimes that could easily be proven in court. How is he not arrested yet?",
">\n\nHe just wants to spend more time wrestling sharks, commandeering the space shuttle, training for the Boston Marathon, and saving children from burning schools.",
">\n\n“We should leave it up to the voters”\nBitch, the voters were lied to on a massive scale and 71% of the REPUBLICAN voters want him to resign. Hold your own fucking party members accountable and throw this guy in the trash.",
">\n\nHe is making McCarthy look like an absolute fool and I am here for it",
">\n\nMcCarthy doesn’t need any help with that.",
">\n\nFor a minute there I thought he was stepping down from his position within the House of Representatives, not just the panels he was appointed to.",
">\n\nI wonder how many in the GOP had to look up the word 'Ethics'.\nI'm sure Boebert had to, not that it would mean anything to her.",
">\n\nBoebert thought people were talking about \"ethnics\"",
">\n\nMan, I wish there was a 2/3 majority who could decide if I got to keep my job after lying to get into it.",
">\n\nI worked for a company that had a panel of employees who would review terminations, when it was contested by the fired employee. It only took a minority to overturn the decision. In the years I was there, I wasn't aware of the panel ever overturning a termination and I was involved in a lot of durings for theft/fraud/ethics",
">\n\nHe is only stepping down to remove some ammunition from Dems who are being removed from committees for bogus nonsense.",
">\n\nA mysterious new member sporting a pair of spectacles was seen attending the panels in his place.",
">\n\nWhy was he even appointed to the panels in the first place? So idiotic. Geez, the bar is set so low now. I should be asking, why is he still in congress?",
">\n\nHahahahah. \nFire that nutjob.",
">\n\nHe did not step down. He was never actually appointed to any of the committees. Nuance is hard. But this is an important point.",
">\n\n“Santos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. “",
">\n\nThe 118th congress needs to vote on the committee assignments; which hadn’t happened before it was announced he would “step down” from the committees the GOP leadership planned to put him on (because of their majority). So at the time he “stepped down” he had nothing to step down from.",
">\n\nHe should've never been put on any panels to begin with. So ridiculous. At least he's making some better decisions than \"leader\" McCarthy, who made these choices knowing all this about Santos, or whoever he is, at the time.",
">\n\nDude is busy hammering out peace negotiations with Vlad and Zelensky. Get off his back, greatness takes patience.",
">\n\nPolitics in the United States is a complete fiasco, continuing shit show that never seems to get better.",
">\n\nIt can't actually get better when one of our two major political parties refuses to engage in literally anything with good faith, and bases their entire platform on contrarianism.",
">\n\nWhat platform? They didn't bother making one in 2020.",
">\n\nI mean, they did, they just didn't write it down. They demonstrated it through action, like going all in on being anti science and medicine during a pandemic, just so they could be opposite what democrats were doing.\nThe platform was \"Whatever they want, we want the opposite.\"",
">\n\nI sincerely doubt he \"stepped down\", but was rather stepped down by the GOP strategists who might be concerned that elevating a known liar and grifter to panels may reflect poorly on the party (admittittedly a very small chance of this since I really don't think anyone in the party cares about actions or optics). Either that or someone has big dirt on him and is forcing it. No way the dude is doing this of his own accord.",
">\n\nSnake Oil Salesmen and Carpetbaggers. GOP will make you a king. Trump proved it and now as the sharks say-there’s blood in the water",
">\n\nWe're still calling them \"issues\"? Come on, man.",
">\n\nThe first step is always the hardest, keep going to the door and we can redo the election",
">\n\nWell he wants more time so he can compete on the next season of rupauls drag rave",
">\n\nStep down another step or two santos.",
">\n\nUnironically, Santos is the source for the info. Thus, it cannot be believed.",
">\n\nEthics issue sure is a nice way to say rampant fraud allegations and damning evidence.",
">\n\n\".................................a move that comes amid a host of ethics issues and a day after he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.\"\nWhat does Kevin McCarthy know about ethics?",
">\n\nThe Republican race to the bottom, all to own the Libs",
">\n\nI’d bet a dollar that the disqualifying lie is right around the corner, they know about it already, and they are trying to get ahead of it",
">\n\nDid he say he stepped down? Has anyone confirmed it?",
">\n\nThe fact Santos was on an ethics panel is... astounding.",
">\n\nThis is a travesty! Who will lead NASA's manned mission to the surface of the sun now?? Shame on you, America.",
">\n\nIt was his idea to go at night, how can we replace such a man",
">\n\nI'm not a New Yorker, did the newspapers and TV stations not background check him?",
">\n\nHe doesn't want the WORK, he wants the pay and the pension.",
">\n\nI fucking hate his goddamned face",
">\n\nThe fact I show up to work late and get fired versus this clown lying to the nation for months and nothing shows how fucked the us government is.",
">\n\nThis guy has the brain of a middle schooler",
">\n\nIt's a shame that a five-time Heisman Trophy winner and the first man to visit Jupiter has to go through all this.",
">\n\nHow dare they treat a Vietnam war veteran and Nobel prize laureate like this.",
">\n\nI'm surprised he didn't burst into flames when he stepped into the committee chamber",
">\n\nYou think it's holy ground? Dude it's practically smelling of sulfur at this point",
">\n\nCan I get an odds check on him being removed, only to then be replaced with someone eerily similar looking, aside from the comedy glasses/nose/mustache combo",
">\n\nStepping down before the DOJ investigation makes it anymore of an embarrassment for the GOP. How could he even be granted a basic security clearance?",
">\n\nThe fact that he was even named to any panels is indication enough that the GOP considers this a nothingburger and is just waiting for everyone to move on. Which we will. Accountability isn't a thing anymore.",
">\n\nHe's not stepping down, he's just not doing the work on those committees but still getting pay and benefits.",
">\n\nHe's not even really stepping down. This is only temporary...",
">\n\n\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nMakes me sad the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is “low profile.”",
">\n\nThis guy ruined the sweater with a suit combo.",
">\n\nNooooooo. He’s fucking hilarious lmao",
">\n\nI'm actually surprised that we don't see more scammers sue him for all kinds of stuff... You know those scammers that like to pretend they got hurt at Walmart... All they have to do is sue him for something and even if he denied it... All they have to say is \"well that's what a liar would say and we all know you're a liar\"",
">\n\nDid he actually step down or is he lying about that too?",
">\n\nIs he going prematurely gray from the stress of being a total fraud?",
">\n\nTemporarily steps down? Temporarily? What the fuck is happening?",
">\n\nSo he's saying that he wants to focus on serving his constituents yet no one ever even answers the phone if you try calling his congressional office on Long Island",
">\n\nHe claims now everything will be above board. Something tells me that is a lie.",
">\n\nHe still not resigning.",
">\n\nTemporarily stepping down = McCarthy wants to kick Ilhan Omar off of committees but knows he will get blow-back if Santos is seated. Never think the current GOP will take the high road or accept blame, this is just a deflection tactic and the media (and voters) keep falling for it.",
">\n\nLet’s see HIS fucking birth certificate!",
">\n\nSure hope he’s on a no fly list. I just have this feeling he’s about to assume a new identity in Switzerland.",
">\n\nHe's gonna hang on to that paycheck as long as humanly possible.",
">\n\nI can’t believe a former president would step down from their committee assignments like this",
">\n\nGood thing the Republicans undermined the ethics panel as first order of business. How you like them ethics?",
">\n\nSo he’ll stay in Congress, collect paycheck, entitled to all the benefits, probably get a pension and won’t even do any work?\nMake him do some work for the money he’s mooching from all of us!",
">\n\nThe man needs to take a long walk off a short pier. This human trash has been conning people and stealing since before he was an adult. Now he's a waste of air.",
">\n\nMcCarthy tells santos to step down from committees until this blows over because he doesn’t want to have to do anything to punish this guy.",
">\n\nKeep stepping, George or whatever your name is.",
">\n\nIf this happened in corporate America, he’s be out of a job so fast. The fact that we have to encourage him to resign instead of just firing his ass blows my goddamn mind",
">\n\nThanks to MTG's big mouth, (shocking that she's this stupid /s) we know that Santos only stepped down so that the Republicans could get the votes to remove Omar from her committee.",
">\n\nCan’t believe these jagaloons get voted in. Better yet why run if you know your a gigantic fraud? I get it I get it, there are others but this one might be the most brazen yet! Right? Right?!",
">\n\nLock him up, lock him up",
">\n\nSo we pay his lazy, lyin ass to do nothing?",
">\n\nHow much you want to bet he shows up to the committee tomorrow because he lied about resigning?",
">\n\nDid he? Or did he lie about doing it?",
">\n\nhe needs to step out of congress and never look back. all his fake apologies are as meaningless as his fake bio/resume. i don't want to see or hear him ever again. and he should take margarine turnip greens & low-rent bobo with him, to name few.",
">\n\nthe fact this dude is still in office tells me everything I need to know about American politics",
">\n\nRepublican politics. Don’t try to “both sides are bad” this worthless shitstain, he very much is the poster child for today’s conservative Republicans.",
">\n\nThe fact that one party can go rogue and control so much without representing the average American (extreme Gerrymandering) demonstrates our whole system is broken.",
">\n\nSo something else he lied about is coming out soon then? Because why now all of a sudden?",
">\n\nIt must be so embarrassing being a Republican with any shred of self-awareness or introspection. I know most of them have none, but still.",
">\n\nI miss when there was some small level of decency within the Republican party. 20 years ago this guy would have been censured and voted out by his own party.",
">\n\n20 years ago was 2003. Maybe you meant 45 years ago?",
">\n\nAre all Republicans imbeciles? Yes.",
">\n\nI'd like to say that this took longer than I thought it would, but I really expected him to face zero consequences until he started running for reelection.",
">\n\n\nhe is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees\nSantos was assigned to two fairly low-profile panels, the House Committee on Small Business and to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.\n\nYeah, he's hoping this will just blow over.",
">\n\nThis guy thinks he's Frank Abagnale.",
">\n\nSo, whose idea was it to put him on these committees in the first place - Kevin McCarthy ? Surely this is on him as much as Santos ?",
">\n\nSantos stepped down from committee assignments? Even temporarily, that's out of character for a RWNJ. Doesn't he realize the game plan is Double Down and Deny!!?!? Never give up, never surrender! (Apologies to Commander Taggart.)",
">\n\nI guess this is the \"integrity\" McCarthy was talking about bringing to Congress.",
">\n\nTranslation: Baby steps by McCarthy to appease the public.",
">\n\nWouldn’t be surprised if he turns put to be F2M trans at this point.",
">\n\nSince he hasn't completely stepped down or been kicked out I take this statement :\n\"I want to personally thank Speaker McCarthy for meeting with me to discuss the matter and allowing me to take time to properly clear my name before returning to my committees\"\nAs being more that they met and McCarthy was like we will only attempt to keep you in this party if you step off these two committees and stop fuckin' lying your ass off so hopefully this blows over\"\nFucken rats.",
">\n\nThis seems like a setup to justify Omar removal from committee.",
">\n\nFuck this guy. Can’t say it enough.",
">\n\nIt just hit me, the only reason he’s not stepping down is because he’s gonna get paid a lot. I’d stay in Congress too if it meant I would make 170k a year",
">\n\nHow about step down from public service altogether",
">\n\nIs this just him saying that he is stepping down? Because if it is, I wouldn't believe him.",
">\n\nBecause he doesn't want to actually work",
">\n\nThe title got me excited at first, damn. \n\"Santos steps down....\"",
">\n\nSo he’s being applauded for doing less while in congress? Literally none of this makes sense",
">\n\nMSNBC had a segment on today where they said this was calculated. Mark Meadows wants to remove Ihan Omar from her committee seat, and Democrats were vowing to force a vote to remove Santos from his committee seats. Now, this takes their ability to do that and possibly cause other issues out of the equation. Edit: Correction- got the name wrong I meant to put Kevin McCarthy...LOL",
">\n\nTrying to understand the US is like banging your head into a wall of spikes. This guy has no business still entering the House.",
">\n\nHe's only temporarily stepped down",
">\n\nIs this any way to treat the guy who (checks his bio) single-handedly pulled Saddam Hussein from his hidey hole?",
">\n\nHe stepped down because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and using the accusations against him as his excuse.. trying to show thats he's a \"responsible\" person. Knowing he's gonna get dragged out eventually.",
">\n\nThey really voted for him.",
">\n\nThis guy's wiki is just a laundry list of controversies. The perfect Republican candidate (aside from the homosexuality).",
">\n\nBut didn’t he invent the very foundations of government? How could you allow him to step down?",
">\n\nHow do I get this job",
">\n\nThat seems very un santosi",
">\n\nHe just wants to get a paycheck. He doesn't actually want to do any work.",
">\n\nWow how different from all the others.....",
">\n\nI actually think he is a bit different in that regard. The others want power and influence. I don't get those vibes from him. It seems like he's just there to cash in a check and find the mark for his next grift.",
">\n\nAt least with this one we know where he stands on the positions.",
">\n\nI wish he'd step back on over to Brazil next.",
">\n\nRussia got what they needed.",
">\n\nI sometimes worry that we've hit a point of snowballing when it comes to our country's capacity for stupidity.\nAnd like, there's no version of \"snowballing\" that's good for American politics.",
">\n\nThere's no way that guy knows enough about any of those subjects to even be sitting on either one of those committees.",
">\n\nIf he’s stepping down on his own I’m guessing something bigger is coming at him. He probably thinks this will shield him to an extent.",
">\n\nOf all the weird shit in American politics the last few years, this has got to be one of the strangest.",
">\n\nIt would be funny if he showed up to those committee meetings and everybody is like “uhh didn’t you step down?” And he’s like “…. sure! Let’s get started!”",
">\n\nDid he though? Or is he just saying that?",
">\n\nStep down, period, you piss-poor excuse of a human being.",
">\n\nHopefully he’ll be doing more stepping down soon",
">\n\nI can’t wait to read his book; That he writes in prison.",
">\n\nI am mostly concerned that he’s going to snap and do something horrific.",
">\n\nShould read “Santos bends over under pubic scrutiny”",
">\n\nFirst he lies to get elected, now he doesn't want to work....",
">\n\n\"Lack of ethics issues.\"",
">\n\nSantos, seen here, on his way home to pack for his flight out to see Girlfriend from Junior High. Of course you don't know her she lives in Canada with her parents.",
">\n\nHer name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.",
">\n\nMy main man Manu Raju reporting in the photo’s background. Fuckin love that guy.",
">\n\nNo. He stepped down so the republicans can remove Omar",
">\n\nLol republicans had a hard time letting go of bigger douche bag then Trump",
">\n\nThere is no way this was voluntary. R leadership made him do this.",
">\n\n“I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish” that has to be the best cover I’ve ever heard",
">\n\nTotally on brand for the GOP",
">\n\nAnd I'm still thinking, \"What's his angle?\"",
">\n\nLmao, putting this motherfucker on panels speaks volumes about everyone else still on them.\nHouse of snakes.",
">\n\nTypical republican... lie, cheat, and steal to get power at any and all costs",
">\n\nNow we need Florida Gov. Ron Santos to step down as well.",
">\n\nThe only questions he'll get now are \"Did Hannah Montana like you?\" and \"What was it like walking on the moon?\". He will go down in history as the biggest liar ever... surpassing the current record holder, donald trump.",
">\n\nDoes this mean we're going to hold politicians accountable for lying now, or just this guy?",
">\n\nnope.. not even this guy \nMcCarthy sure won't"
] |
Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage? | [] |
>
That was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like "not my problem anymore". | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?"
] |
>
He's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\"."
] |
>
HAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??
"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay" | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick."
] |
>
No he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly.
The man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\""
] |
>
My apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of "Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt."
] |
>
Aye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces."
] |
>
Cavalcade of Cunts new band name called it! | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable."
] |
>
Britain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!"
] |
>
The only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain."
] |
>
It's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.
Edit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, "What if the vote margin was bigger?" or "Should the government ignore the will of the people?" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.
A non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?
We folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if "leave" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.
Following a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.
The government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.
What actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.
You might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding? | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself."
] |
>
Correct. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.
If this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?"
] |
>
In Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about."
] |
>
In Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting."
] |
>
Tories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country."
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Thatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.
bunch of bags of evil | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now."
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I don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil"
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any time you see "the economy" replace it with "rich people's yacht money" and marvel at how accurate it is | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease."
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But the NHS got better right? /s | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is"
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Yep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...
/s | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s"
] |
>
Nobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.
Brexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.
A lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s"
] |
>
Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.
What is it with conservatives hating health care? I'm in the U.S., and conservatives here have taught their followers to fight against affordable healthcare. Even just the phrase "affordable healthcare" sends conservatives in the US into a full rage. It's insane. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s",
">\n\nNobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.\nBrexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.\nA lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement."
] |
>
Its because of the freedom having free healthcare provides.
If like in the US your healthcare is directly tied to your employer.... as a worker you are tied to the work.
If you want to leave for a different job or God forbid try to create a business or work for yourself, you will have no healthcare.
It's about control and eroding the power of the working class.
Even just a little bit more control over the worker allows the businesses to use that power to gain more power etc etc. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s",
">\n\nNobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.\nBrexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.\nA lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.",
">\n\n\nCouple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.\n\nWhat is it with conservatives hating health care? I'm in the U.S., and conservatives here have taught their followers to fight against affordable healthcare. Even just the phrase \"affordable healthcare\" sends conservatives in the US into a full rage. It's insane."
] |
>
Yes, we understand why the elites oppose it.
By why the fuck does Joe down the street fall inline with it, it's asinine! | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s",
">\n\nNobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.\nBrexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.\nA lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.",
">\n\n\nCouple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.\n\nWhat is it with conservatives hating health care? I'm in the U.S., and conservatives here have taught their followers to fight against affordable healthcare. Even just the phrase \"affordable healthcare\" sends conservatives in the US into a full rage. It's insane.",
">\n\nIts because of the freedom having free healthcare provides.\nIf like in the US your healthcare is directly tied to your employer.... as a worker you are tied to the work.\nIf you want to leave for a different job or God forbid try to create a business or work for yourself, you will have no healthcare.\nIt's about control and eroding the power of the working class.\nEven just a little bit more control over the worker allows the businesses to use that power to gain more power etc etc."
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Because they don’t want to pay taxes and are actively stupid. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s",
">\n\nNobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.\nBrexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.\nA lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.",
">\n\n\nCouple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.\n\nWhat is it with conservatives hating health care? I'm in the U.S., and conservatives here have taught their followers to fight against affordable healthcare. Even just the phrase \"affordable healthcare\" sends conservatives in the US into a full rage. It's insane.",
">\n\nIts because of the freedom having free healthcare provides.\nIf like in the US your healthcare is directly tied to your employer.... as a worker you are tied to the work.\nIf you want to leave for a different job or God forbid try to create a business or work for yourself, you will have no healthcare.\nIt's about control and eroding the power of the working class.\nEven just a little bit more control over the worker allows the businesses to use that power to gain more power etc etc.",
">\n\nYes, we understand why the elites oppose it.\nBy why the fuck does Joe down the street fall inline with it, it's asinine!"
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And they're temporarily poor. One day, they'll be rich like that. | [
"Where’s old mate Nigel Farrage?",
">\n\nThat was the Best part. He led them out and then just quit like \"not my problem anymore\".",
">\n\nHe's vocal on Twitter about the problems we are facing, the problems he had a huge hand in creating. He's such a fucking dick.",
">\n\nHAHAHAHAHA thats fucking rich. so how does Nigel frame his displeasure??\n\"I can't believe the stupidity of this government! Why do we have no trade agreements yet? who would think BREXIT was a good idea?? I was never pro-BREXIT. I voted to stay\"",
">\n\nNo he seems to have settled into the 'well the government haven't done Brexit right' argument. If he had been in charge it would have been done properly. \nThe man's a cunt. In fact, I'd go as far as to say he is the ultimate expression of the British cunt.",
">\n\nMy apprehension against simply bestowing him the title of \"Ultimate Expression of the British Cunt\" is not due to a lacking resume, but due to all the competition he faces.",
">\n\nAye, Normal Island has a fuckin cavalcade of cunts to pick from. Just an endless rotation of the most rubbish bastards imaginable.",
">\n\nCavalcade of Cunts new band name called it!",
">\n\nBritain struggling under trade sanctions applied by Britain.",
">\n\nThe only country in human history to democratically vote to impose economic sanctions on itself.",
">\n\nIt's kind of worse than that, since it was a referendum and not actually a legally binding vote.\nEdit: Ok, I'm getting a lot of replies asking things like, \"What if the vote margin was bigger?\" or \"Should the government ignore the will of the people?\" Here is my reply to those kinds of questions.\nA non-binding referendum is, legally speaking, not binding. It can therefore be assumed that such a referendum must have some utility beyond a mandate made to the government. Can we layfolk think of one? What about a process to solicit feedback in the form of personal responses to a spitball proposal? What about a way to ask the public if it's worthwhile committing to research into a particular proposal when said research would utilize significant government resources and incur significant costs (to be covered by taxpayers)?\nWe folk who choose not to govern should, I think, have the expectation of those among us who do choose to govern that they... well... govern. As such, I, a voter, should be able to confidently assume that a non-binding referendum really ought not result in government action. Why? Because this is a non-binding referendum and pointedly not a policy vote. I should be able to distill from this that if \"leave\" wins (indicating a slight interest among the populace to change the status quo), that the government should proceed by committing resources toward the production of a report--a report which is designed to provide educating details on the expected impact of such a deviation from the status quo on the people and on the government. I should expect to see some period of time, probably lasting months, wherein the government conducts substantial research, then hands the culmination of that research over to the media. I should see reports about that research on the news, online, in the papers. It should be the talk of the town.\nFollowing a period of perhaps even up to an entire year after the publication of such a report, I expect a decision from the government. Either present a policy vote if the matter is a true toss-up and could be at least equal parts good and bad in general or, if the general feeling of the report is either massively beneficial to everyone involved or massively detrimental, hand off a policy vote to the legislature (if good) or run a massive ad campaign about how absolutely batshit crazy of an idea it actually turns out to be and do nothing.\nThe government is built on the concept of law. A voter absolutely should not expect a referendum that is blatantly designated not binding to be acted on by the government, not by any margin, and especially not be a three point margin. And the leaders of the government, who, by the way, are the leaders of one of the most powerful governments and organizations in the entire world, should be trusted, at least to the extent that it applies to the prospect of national suicide, to do the right thing and step back from the ledge after looking and seeing exactly how far the fall actually is.\nWhat actually happened was an absolutely pathetic and miserable abdication of duty. The government did not function whatsoever. It fell into the trap of bureaucracy and did what the referendum dictated despite not being bound by the results just because a slight margin said to do it, with nowhere near a complete appreciation for the actual consequences or even how deep the UK's fingers really were in the EU cookie jar. The buffoons rubber stamped Brexit.\nYou might as well pack up the entire government and call it quits when the government starts rubber stamping decisions with international implications and nothing but bad implications for their own freaking country and economy. THEY are in charge. THEY are responsible for running the show. And THEYYYYY are the ones who drafted and submitted a NON-BINDING referendum. Dear Lord, THEY should have known and leveraged the non-binding nature of it because if they presume to be bound by it, what is the point of explicitly indicating the referendum is non-binding?",
">\n\nCorrect. As a Swiss citizen who is familiar with direct democracy, I know too well that our politicians bend the rules in their favor as much as possible if the people voted for something really stupid.\nIf this had happened in Switzerland, nobody would have given two flying fcks about a glorified opinion poll (which is what the Brexit referendum exactly was) and would have moved on, waiting until the people found something else to complain about.",
">\n\nIn Ireland, we had a similar case with the Lisbon treaty. It was rejected by a narrow margin so the referendum was held again with some refinement. It's madness to enact something with such a small margin when in any election you'll get something like 5% protest voting.",
">\n\nIn Irish referendums we vote on the specific language that is proposed to amend our constitution. The Brexit vote was: pick smiley EU face or sad EU face. Cameron could have avoided all of this by offering the public the choice of type of exit, none of the options would have won a majority, and remain would have won the plurality. He fucked up so bad. Their last string of PMs have destroyed the country.",
">\n\nTories, eh. Last time they were in power this long was Thatcher years, and everyone I know either pretends those years never happened or talks about it like the dark days, especially the repercussions on now.",
">\n\nThatcher is the UK's Reagan lol.\nbunch of bags of evil",
">\n\nI don't think the parallels are a coincidence, both parties pretend to be about the economy but they just mean the wealthy and since that line doesn't play well with the masses, they throw in racism and religion. Unfortunately Russia is very good at influencing the wealthy with money and then spamming the media with the help of Murdoch. Brexit and Trump seem to be symptoms of the same disease.",
">\n\nany time you see \"the economy\" replace it with \"rich people's yacht money\" and marvel at how accurate it is",
">\n\nBut the NHS got better right? /s",
">\n\nYep that 350million extra is paying dividends right now...\n/s",
">\n\nNobody ever talks about this. The NHS is rapidly falling apart and not one politician in this country has ever asked where the £350m went.\nBrexit is the elephant in the room that no one can ever mention. It was an unmitigated disaster in every possible way yet everyone is too afraid to mention it in a negative light.\nA lot of people - maybe a majority, gave the extra money for the NHS as their reason for voting to leave and now they bury their heads in the sand. Couple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.",
">\n\n\nCouple this with the fact that the death of the NHS is a deliberate aim of the Tory party and there's no hope for improvement.\n\nWhat is it with conservatives hating health care? I'm in the U.S., and conservatives here have taught their followers to fight against affordable healthcare. Even just the phrase \"affordable healthcare\" sends conservatives in the US into a full rage. It's insane.",
">\n\nIts because of the freedom having free healthcare provides.\nIf like in the US your healthcare is directly tied to your employer.... as a worker you are tied to the work.\nIf you want to leave for a different job or God forbid try to create a business or work for yourself, you will have no healthcare.\nIt's about control and eroding the power of the working class.\nEven just a little bit more control over the worker allows the businesses to use that power to gain more power etc etc.",
">\n\nYes, we understand why the elites oppose it.\nBy why the fuck does Joe down the street fall inline with it, it's asinine!",
">\n\nBecause they don’t want to pay taxes and are actively stupid."
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