On his way to a seat in Congress, George Santos made a whirlwind journey through New York political circles that left anger and disappointment among fellow Republicans in his wake.
‘… exposed as a serial fabulist …’
Sounds just a bit too festive for the situation.
I have no sympathy for any of them. Republicans in general seem to have a strange relationship with reality. This scenario is a good example. How could you not know, if you paid the slightest attention to what was going on?
Pay attention!?? Naw … santos is after $$ by bamboozling anyone he can. That is everything to him. Political issues are not worth worrying about with that liar
Feeling scammed, or just feeling stupid? Perhaps that’s too judgmental. But even without all the details the world now knows, Santos does not come across as authentic, on any level. Have people lost the basic instinct to realize someone is just spewing a babbling river of bullshit?
Looking at the assemblage of his Trumplican compatriots, I think I just answered my own question. Though it may be that they do know; they just don’t care enough to choose differently.
I just posted the same basic sentiment, not seeing your comment until afterward. It’s not like Santos possesses some virtuoso genius for deception.
Immoral. Amoral. Unethical. Holds the law in contempt. Self-dealing. Yup, he’s a MAGA Republican!
When you see how many people keep sending money to a self-proclaimed billionaire and a magnificent businessman who has multiple documented bankruptcies, you have to wonder how stupid AND gullible people can be.
“One GOP state Senate candidate who says he fell victim to Santos told TPM that the experience left him feeling like Santos would ‘gladly step on other people to get ahead in life.’”
I’m kind of having a boo-hoo moment here. Doesn’t this pretty much describe every politician? Or is this asshat just pissed because he didn’t like being on the receiving end of getting fucked over rather than the other way around?
The entire GQP is nothing but an enormous scam and there’s a sucker born every minute when it comes to the party faithful.
I have to appreciate the other story this morning about the D-list lawyers that may make up TIFG’s second term. They’d have to be truly the stupidest people on the planet after watching what all the B-list’ers are going through after the first term and insurrection.
Anyone signing up for that would literally need to have his/her sanity questioned. Seriously.
He doesn’t now that he has been exposed but as crude as his methods were, he fooled a lot of people to get this far.
The idea of authenticity or sincerity isn’t really an adequate substitute for accuracy even if increasing numbers of people seem to rely on it.
ETA: It needs to be added that a lot of people may have relied less upon Santos' oleaginous charm and more on the vetting they assumed the Republican party would do for any candidate they sponsored; the integrity of the supporting organization as it were. Maybe there was a time when the Republican party was an honest broker but that time is long past: Santos was an obvious bullshit artist but then so was (and is) the current leader of their party so whatever works is clearly the standard.“The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are.
These “anti-realist” doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity.
– Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (PDF)
Are they just now becoming “woke” to Santos’s scams?
and this is the real reason that any repubs are turning on him… it’s because he scammed his own party, too. If it was just murdering puppies and ripping off old ladies, they’d still be fine with him.
Sing it Sister!
Republican candidates sure are stupid and gullible. Must be a feature not a bug.
The same reflexive rejection of any Democratic notion leaves them reflexively assuming anything Republican must be okey-dokey.
It does seem that way.
Or they always knew, but it was a way to get a GQP into a Dem seat.
They all voted for Trump and continue to back and defend him.
The only difference between Trump and Santos is Trump had his daddy’s money backing him.
There is so much money sloshing around the GOP that a guy and a network of associates can target them for a scam.
Indicative, I’d say. Roberts should be pilloried beside this miserable fart.
When you were a kid did you ever play with a kid who was absolutely terrifying and exhausting, some nightmare little shit who was a moron, but who always had to win anyway? I did. I had a cousin about the same age and he was the stupidest fucking moron on the planet. Always wanted to play chess but he was an imbecile and I easily beat him. Or I would have if he didn’t make up his own rules, but the rules kept changing to the point where he simply declared I’d lost because he’d made up a new rule that was a secret. When I said that was bullshit, he flipped the board over. So we’re not dealing with morons operating in a world-class system. The threat is morons who will remake the system for morons, and toss out any rule that gets in their way. That’s the threat. That’s the endgame for democracy.