Scandal in the Wind 2023. George Santos gets Sashayed

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

So to summarize:

- No record he ever worked at Citigroup or Goldman Sachs
- His “charity” is not registered as tax-exempt by the IRS
- No record of him attending the college he claimed to graduate from
- No clients for his “firm” exist
- No records of the properties he claimed to own existing
- Omitted key personal financial disclosures during campaign
- Charged criminally for check fraud in Brazil
- Lied about losing four employees at the Pulse nightclub shooting
- Evicted multiple times
- Bounced between several failed business ventures over two years
- A person at the address where he is registered to vote said she is not familiar with him

How plucky and picaresque! You'd have to root for him if he weren't about to become a powerful political figure in real life. He'd make a great Thackeray protagonist.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

So in other news, CBS interviewed George Anthony Devolder Santos’s former roomate and he said Santos only wanted to be in congress to get the lifetime healthcare and pension.

That’s plus his drag performer past makes Santos perhaps the first ever literal welfare queen

Unfortunately for Santos, members of Congress are vested after 5 years of service. That means he'd have to be reelected twice to get the pension. Good luck, my dude.
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Irrelevant Tangent: Why 5 years? I'm sure there's a reason but it feels a bit arbitrary. It hurts my soul knowing that Joe Sestak won't get a Congressional pension. (Who I just found out after looking at his wikipedia page, joined Andrew Yang's Freedom Party last year?!??) Personally I think service of at least 2 years would be more fair since that's one full house term, but I'm just some dude.

Thank god, the thought of this slime of a person being on government dime the rest of his life is gross

Love to hate a man who fought to reveal abuses in the military, because he joined a movement you dislike. Must be because of his policies.

I'm pretty sure he's referring to Santos, not Sestak.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Tired: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Wired: George Santos, Producer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark