Times are tough.
Today we learned that expelled-Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is using the website Cameo to sell videos for cash now that he no longer has a congressional salary and has been accused of, among many other things, misappropriating campaign funds to bankroll his expensive taste.
Meanwhile, the embattled ex-congressman remains much more optimistic about his future than many of his Republican ex-colleagues, who are expecting it’ll involve some time behind bars.
On this issue I find myself in agreement with many of his gooper colleagues - he’s headed from the house to the Big House.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Santos-De Volder will be in prison in the next year or two and that Kari Lake has had her fifteen minutes. Also still praying for the Angel of Death to visit TFG real soon.
Is your limb strong enough for two?
Mebbe we will see tfg and Santos/Devolder in cells next to each other?
I must admit here to evil thoughts about tfg that I should never post. Suffering is very much needed in his case.
Oh, prison will be so much better than death. I hope he lives a long time behind bars.
His imprisonment would be an important victory for the rule of law, but his demise would put him out of our misery.
I’d also accept some ongoing poster child to hold up for whatever remaining republicans/white supremacy types that exist so they cannot put tfg in a memory hole.I am also petty enough to want tfg to suffer, and being convicted and removed from power he can no longer influence would be deeply satisfying.
I knew a congressmember once. He was intent on getting his pension. I thought he said it took three terms. It was a good pension. After it was vested he would never have to work again. Sadly he was redistricted into a district with a popular incumbent and lost in the primary for his third term. He had to work again.
The article says it takes 5 years for congressional pensions to vest. That is two and a half terms. This bill is completely unnecessary.
I’m sure I’m not going very far out on a limb here, but I can absolutely see these fuckwit asshats using a law like this to beat the shit out of Democrats when the fascists are in the majority. Just as one last petty act of scumbaggery they’d vote to expel retiring Democrats with only days left in a 30 year career, just so they can give a one-finger salute and fuck with them. There’s literally no other reason for a bill like this.
For how long? A year? Two? C’mon man, the well has been poisoned. The fix is in. A major network is nothing but the fascist Ministry of Truth. Thousands of demented evil motherfuckers have seen how it’s done and can’t wait to see how far they can take it. Fat Boy dropping dead? Don’t think for a second that’s the end. What happens until then is just the prologue. This shit is only getting started.
Only if you believe its stated purpose is its actual purpose. I don’t think it is.
Well, the truth certainly freed Congress of his presence.
I think the truth is what’s going to put him in prison … for quite some time.
A group of New York Republicans who were some of Santos’ fiercest detractors in the GOP introduced a bill to prohibit members of Congress convicted of certain crimes from profiting off book deals, speeches and other common post-congressional income streams.
Hm, this almost sounds like government stepping on the invisible hand…if people want to pay for a disgraced congressman’s book, or pay for him to come speak at a venue, who is the government to step in and prohibit it?
If Santos were to write a book, and some people actually wanted to buy it, I think the problem solving would need to focus more on the second group than on Santos himself…there are actual problems that they could be writing bills to address, but if Santos is actually as odious as he appears, getting money for book deals ought to be self-correcting issue (i.e. no one would want to buy it).
Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), one of 100-plus Republicans who voted to expel Santos from Congress last week, introduced the Congressional Pension Accountability Act on Monday, which would block lawmakers who are expelled from Congress from accessing a congressional pension.
“Jim Harbaugh was the best coach I’ve ever had!”
It is a Bill to look like they are doing something.
Sometimes that is part of the court sentence - that they can’t profit from their crime.
This should be applied to Jordan, Comer, etc.
