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Dr. Ken wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:50 pm Notice what's missing? A Jacob wohl press conference
He could bring gourmet hors d'oeuvres. These are lobster rolls, buffalo wings, and crostini. :liar:

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The Wikipedia user page has since been blanked, but the archives still exist.

As always, literally any idiot can edit Wikipedia.
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Foggy wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:55 pm
Dr. Ken wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:50 pm Notice what's missing? A Jacob wohl press conference
He could bring gourmet hors d'oeuvres. These are lobster rolls, buffalo wings, and crostini. :liar:

Not to forget the crudités for the vegans ;)
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bob wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 3:10 pm The Wikipedia user page has since been blanked, but the archives still exist.

As always, literally any idiot can edit Wikipedia.
Yeah but the original entry was from 2011 why would anyone care about him back then
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Dr. Ken wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:30 pm Yeah but the original entry was from 2011 why would anyone care about him back then
Yes, I know. Just saying it isn't notable that he started "his" own user page, or that someone recently blanked it.
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pipistrelle wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:56 pm
Danraft wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 1:42 pm Santos needs psychiatric care.
I don’t think either psychiatry or psychology has an effective way to deal with personality disorders.
Can we try waterboarding? :thumbsup:
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‘We don’t know his real name’: George Santos’s unravelling web of lies
‘Nobody even knows who this guy is,’ critics say, but he was still awarded with House panel assignments – showing the party ‘stands for nothing’

David Smith in Washington
Sun 22 Jan 2023 07.00 GMT

“He didn’t just steal from a service dog. He didn’t just steal from a dying service dog. He stole from a disabled homeless veteran’s dying service dog. Oh my God. You evil and stupid!”

That was how Leslie Jones, guest host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, summed up just one of this week’s revelations about George Santos, a US congressman whose shameless fabulism has stunned Washington, a capital that thought it had smelt every flavour of mendacity from politicians.

“What does this man have to do get thrown out of Congress?” Jones asked, echoing the thoughts of many. “He’s a fucking liar.”

Yet the answer is that, far from being expelled from the House of Representatives, Santos, 34, was rewarded with assignments on two of its committees. The vote of confidence appeared to be an expedient calculation by the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, aware Republicans have such a slim majority that even losing one seat would make it much harder to pass legislation.

But it was also a decision, critics said, that showed the party of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower has lost its moral compass. Stuart Stevens, a political consultant and author of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, said: “Santos is a perfect example of the collapse of the Republican party.

“It shows that the party stands for nothing. It seems like a million years ago but there was a time when we said character was destiny. Nobody even knows who this guy is. We literally don’t know his real name.”



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Serial liar George Santos is the politician Americans deserve

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It’s hard to keep track of what, exactly, the newly elected Republican congressman George Santos has said about his own life. His story changes and contradicts itself; his lies seem indiscriminate, and largely ad hoc. He says he worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which he didn’t. He said he graduated from Baruch College – he didn’t do that, either. Some of his fabrications are so trivial and specific that it’s impossible to ascribe a nefarious motive to them.

What could Santos possibly have to gain, for instance, by claiming, as he apparently did to a local Republican party leader, to have been a college volleyball champion? Others are transparently self-serving, his attempts to cover them up so brazen as to be frankly hilarious. On the campaign trail, running in the heavily Jewish third district of New York, on suburban Long Island, Santos claimed that he was “a member of the Jewish community”, and descended from Ukrainian refugees. When this turned out to be untrue, he later tried to claim that he merely meant that he was “Jew-ish”. It was like a line from Seinfeld; punning, implausible, shameless. At times like this, it’s hard to take Santos’s dishonesty seriously. It seems less like an affront to the dignity of the democratic process and more like some kind of durational satire, a piece of performance art.

But if you take his fictional biography as a whole, it’s clear that Santos was appealing to particular American longings. He was quite savvily inventing a character who would assuage the anxieties and comfort the vanities of the affluent, Republican-leaning voters in his district. On the campaign trail, Santos presented himself as the embodiment of 20th century-style American upward mobility. He claimed to be the son of Brazilian immigrants, who grew up in “abject poverty” and attended public schools before ascending to become a blue-chip financial trader and wealthy philanthropist. It’s a dream that no doubt many still want to believe in. But it should have been a red flag. Anyone who assesses America with clear eyes knows that Goldman Sachs traders don’t come, as Santos says he did, from basement apartments in Jackson Heights, Queens. They come from Dalton, Choate and Exeter.

He professed the identities that have been most easily demonized in the Republican imagination: he was supposed to be Jewish, a member of the group targeted by conspiratorial QAnon theories; he was supposed to be gay, a member of the group increasingly smeared on the right as pedophiles; he was supposed to be a Latino immigrant, a member of the group associated with dark fantasies in the white mind about demographic change and crime. But at the same time, he was a Republican, a defender of these bigotries; his membership in the very groups his party worked against seemed to absolve his voters of complicity even as they indulged their bias. The identities were not meant to be investments in the pluralism of our country, but moral shields, flimsy cover behind which attacks on those very groups could be launched.




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What could it be? :yawn:
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raison de arizona wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2023 8:42 pm What could it be? :yawn:
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if you are doing a drag performance in hallway let your colleagues know so we can prepare.
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My first thought is Who Cares?
He most likely thinks he has something that will “own” the Libs or Media…
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George Santos admits to dressing up as woman, but denies he was a ‘drag queen’
By Patrick Reilly January 22, 2023 12:21am Updated

Lying Long Island Rep. George Santos finally admitted to dressing up as a woman in the past— though he denied he was a “drag queen” while talking to reporters at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday. “No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life,” the embattled Republican congressman said, in his first public response since allegations that he performed as a drag queen named Kitara emerged last week.

Santos, who is openly gay, had repeatedly tried to shoot down the reports of his cross-dressing past, which emerged last week after a photo from 2008 was posted online by Eula Rochard, a drag queen in Brazil and former friend of Santos. A video also surfaced of what appeared to be the freshman rep clad in a black dress and sunglasses, boasting about performing as a drag queen at the Pride parade in the Rio suburb of Niteroi in 2005.

Santos and Rochard reportedly met when Rochard was already an established drag queen in a Brazilian city next to Rio de Janeiro. She said he went by “Anthony” when she knew him and that he “lied about everything.” She said Santos — who has also gone by the name Anthony Devolder — was never a professional drag performer because “he did not have what it takes.”

While Santos denied earlier this week that he “performed as a drag queen,” he has not denied that he is the person in the photos and videos. “The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or “performed” as a drag Queen is categorically false,” Santos tweeted on Thursday. “The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results. I will not be distracted nor fazed by this.”
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Come on people, he was drag-ish. Don't know what the media doesn't get about that.
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... and queen-ish.

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nothing new revealed, known material

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Santos is really a funny guy (in his imagination.) He knows comedy.
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George Santos @Santos4Congress wrote: I have now been enshrined in late night TV history with all these impersonations, but they are all TERRIBLE so far. Jon Lovitz is supposed to be one of the greatest comedians of all time and that was embarrassing— for him not me! These comedians need to step their game up.
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Also:

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