The last time I can recall a politician breakout as fast as this was Sarah Palin. And we all know how THAT ended!
If I were going to do a background report on Santos, it would not be a matter of knowing where to start – it’d be which LIE is the most outrageous to start with.
SANTOS:
But I decided to use his prevarications as a springboard to showcase how the internet has handled it.
(I particularly got a kick out of the “Disinfo+”)
One of the better summaries of Santos’ “embellishments” (as he likes to call them) is this Tweet:
George Santos pretended to be a gay Afro-Latino Ukrainian Brazilian Catholic Jew whose mother died on 9/11, whose ancestors survived the Holocaust, whose employees died in the Pulse club mass shooting, and whose net worth rose by millions overnight.
Am I missing anything?
— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) December 29, 2022
Or if you prefer a more literary approach, this poem from a Comment in WaPo should work:
My name is Santos,
And I’m a Jew,
A financial wizard,
And a Catholic, too.
I’m all that,
And so much more,
A gay, a straight,
Who’s keeping score?
It’s not all lies,
I like to embellish,
Like topping a wiener,
With pickle relish.
You know who likes me?
Kevin McCarthy!
(He even makes ME a little barfy)
I’ll take my seat,
I may as well,
The GOP has gone to HELL!
But not every Twitter poster has been unkind – some were actually quite sympathetic on learning of the death of his Mom … TWICE:
— Neil Kaplan – Voice Actor Dude Guy (@NeKap) December 29, 2022
Sorry about your mom dying twice
— jim manley (@jamespmanley) December 29, 2022
We all are scratching our heads about why the GQP is acting so upset by a con man winning an election. Hell, the entire party has become one big grift that has stood by a liar, cheat, fraud and rapist for years.
Seems like Santos is a perfect fit for the party. Lord knows that unlike the colleges he NEVER attended, he has the actual sheepskin credentials from a well-qualified source:
Perhaps his best known whopper is where he claims he NEVER said he was “Jewish” – but instead “Jew-ISH”.
Professional liar George Santos — who said oops he meant to say he was Jew-ish, NOT Jewish, and lied about being the grandson of Holocaust survivors — beat Robert Zimmerman who’s actually Jewish
You really can’t make this shit up
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) December 27, 2022
As a Public Service for Santos, I’m going to provide an update:
Since time and space is limited, I’ll just share a bit of what the memes are concerning Santos by way of books, TV and movie titles:
I would be remiss if I didn’t include what has to be about the best example of irony I’ve ever come across – courtesy of a Tweet from Santos a little over a year ago:
BIDEN IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!
— George Santos (@Santos4Congress) August 30, 2021
If Santos were actually capable of telling the truth, well …
Looks like Santos is going to be seated this Tuesday as the incoming republican representative from New York’s 3rd District (which is going to make for a tight schedule given that he has that eulogy to give for Pope Emeritus Benedict in Rome on Thursday). This, at least, proves Will Rogers, the folksy humorist from Oklahoma, was right:
“You can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn’t necessary.”
