Meet George Santos!

America & Brazil's True Leftist sure can Pick'em

Okay, this George Santos saga is beyond misstatements and beyond farce. The revelations are multiplying and they are moving beyond simply lying about his background and into a host of crimes past and present.

Santos isn't a Ukrainian Jew Holocaust descendant or or a Wall Street financial broker or apparently even gay.  I don't even know if his name is "George Santos".  Now... I'm not going to lament the fact the Republican Party will never, ever vote to censor a fellow Traveller.  Santos is part of the slender Republican majority in the House.  So, the "concurrence of two thirds" required to expel Santos will never be reached nor do I believe it should sans violent crimes like Insurrection or Civil War.

Also, in American Democracy the people deserve to be represented by those whom they vote for, even if it's a crypto FSB asset like Mad Nazi Cawthorn or drunken gun moll like Lauren Dick Flasher Boebert.  So if New York Third District wants an obvious fraud like "George Santos", that's what they should get.  Of course, if the residents of the district wish to sue and have "Santos" removed they should try whatever possible avenues exist.  Of course, I don't expect the Corporate Media to have delved into Santos shady background, the Media's job is to make Republicans palatable to voters and normalize the most egregious behavior.  

But, local reporting had uncovered a great deal of the false background.  His entire history is a fraud and involves Ponzi schemes, super shady personal finances, and lies about his education, his personal life, his ancestry, even despicably lying about having friends killed in the Pulse Nightclub Massacre and who knows what else.  Remember Rightwingers always claim "The Left" and Democratic officials use their background or identity politics to make themselves immune to criticism.  I'm betting that Republican strategists decided they needed an "openly Gay Republican" with a whole host of ethnic shields so they could use him to attack LGBTQ people (Santos said in April as a Gay Man he stood behind DeSantis and gave his full blown support to the Florida Republican Gay Bashing Laws) and be the face of Republican efforts to ensconce oppression and intolerance into the national dialogue and eventually into law, either through the Congress or Supreme Court.  "George Santos" was then invented and staked financially to be that Face.   

Santos has responded to these revelations by saying he needs a week to respond.  And I'm surprised he did.  But, I expect the response to be all these revelations are lies and the Democrats do it too and Suck it Libs!