Scandal in the Wind 2023. George Santos gets Sashayed

[The Dowager Mod]

 
https://twitter.com/BrentSpiner/status/1608510282791530497

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Personally, I consider Hispanic and Latino synonyms and Brazilians to count as Latinos because Portugal, like Spain, shares in Iberian Latin-derived culture and was part of Roman Hispania.
Brazilians may identify as Lusophone, but Lusophone is not a common term in America and there's enough common ground for them to count as Latino, given they are routinely classified as being part of Latin America.
This has to be one of the few areas I cut Santos any slack, given the man is a serial liar.

[President Johnson]

Wait, this guy also faked his first time?

Maybe I should move to the US and run for something as John Smith?

[The Mikado]

Devolder Santos??

https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1176543389468254208

You're misinterpreting.

He ran for Congress in 2020 as George Devolder-Santos and ran for Congress in 2022 as George Santos. Devolder wasn't his first name.

[The Mikado]

Personally, I consider Hispanic and Latino synonyms and Brazilians to count as Latinos because Portugal, like Spain, shares in Iberian Latin-derived culture and was part of Roman Hispania.
Brazilians may identify as Lusophone, but Lusophone is not a common term in America and there's enough common ground for them to count as Latino, given they are routinely classified as being part of Latin America.
This has to be one of the few areas I cut Santos any slack, given the man is a serial liar.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Personally, I consider Hispanic and Latino synonyms and Brazilians to count as Latinos because Portugal, like Spain, shares in Iberian Latin-derived culture and was part of Roman Hispania.
Brazilians may identify as Lusophone, but Lusophone is not a common term in America and there's enough common ground for them to count as Latino, given they are routinely classified as being part of Latin America.
This has to be one of the few areas I cut Santos any slack, given the man is a serial liar.

Ok, this is weird. He's just inventing a label here. To go boldly where no Santos has gone before!

[DrScholl]

If one wants to be picky with semantics, Euro African (or more correctly, European-African) would be someone of European descent that lives in Africa like Afrikaners. In reverse an Afro-European is a person of African descent who lives in Europe. In Santos' case he's a Brazilian-American who is Pardo (the term for mixed race in Brazil).

[Atlas Force]

Pot, meet kettle

https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1432477835248259080

[crals]

I owe an apology to George Santos and his black dad:




https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1608336258203541505

George Santos: actually half black. My bad.

Technically this means he's not Latino. If his father was born in Brazil then he is Afro-Lusitanic, not Afro-Latino and therefore Santos is not Latino, but Lusitanic. And his claim is that both of his parents were born in Brazil so I don't think there is any Latino heritage on his mother's side either. Granted, Santos probably didn't know the difference between Latino and Lusitanic like most people do, he still was pushing another inaccuracy for identity politics.

"Lusitanic" is not a thing. Brazilians are not Hispanic but they most certainly are Latino(-Americans).

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1608626139404148736

[Hope For A New Era]

At this point I'm half-expecting an announcement that this has all been an extremely bizarre piece of performance art.

[TheReckoning]

Who cares about this. Politicians (such as Kamala Harris) lie all the time.

[soundchaser]

At this point I'm half-expecting an announcement that this has all been an extremely bizarre piece of performance art.

“The Aristocrats!!!”

[Middle-aged Europe]

Who cares about this. Politicians (such as Kamala Harris) lie all the time.

Low-energy response. Try again, please.

[Atlas Force]

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1608644999385649152

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1608644999385649152

LOL. Mega-based. Forget Pete, Ritchie Torres should be the first gay President hands down.

[Torie]

The NYT remains on the Santos case like a bloodhound, and today it is about the conversion of campaign funds to pay personal expenses, including rent for the house Santos was really living in, as opposed to pretending to live in, that was listed as for campaign staff, but only he and his husband where sighted there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/nyregion/george-santos-campaign-finance.html

It's only a matter of time, as we all await the disclosure of where the 750K came from.

[Roll Roons]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1608814260456652800?cxt=HHwWgIDQgfmC1NMsAA...

I agree. How is it that the Nassau GOP decided that this guy was their best option and let him go unopposed in the primary?

[Torie]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1608814260456652800?cxt=HHwWgIDQgfmC1NMsAA...
I agree. How is it that the Nassau GOP decided that this guy was their best option and let him go unopposed in the primary?

My speculation is that the GOP had become acclimated to losing in Nassau County, the seat that was drawn very late in the day was unexpectedly Pub (maps of both parties did not have such a seat), and the GOP romp was not anticipated until the backs on the machines were read after 9 pm on election night.

[Oryxslayer]

I agree. How is it that the Nassau GOP decided that this guy was their best option and let him go unopposed in the primary?

My speculation is that the GOP had become acclimated to losing in Nassau County, the seat that was drawn very late in the day was unexpectedly Pub (maps of both parties did not have such a seat), and the GOP romp was not anticipated until the backs on the machine would read after 9 pm on election night.

The issue with this line of thought is that the Nassau GOP swept the local elections in 2021. There may have been many events in between the actual wave of 2021 and the local wave of 2022, but the Nassau GOP were one group with actual evidence to convince potential candidates. 

Which leaves one to wonder how much the unimplemented gerrymander affected things. NY-03 if one recalls was very Blue, with a chunk of Westchester tacked on. It's not hard to imagine that by the time the Nassau GOP saw that the suburbs south of Levittown were in the seat, Santos had charmed enough people with his lies to prevent any other serious entrants.

[Sir Mohamed]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1608814260456652800?cxt=HHwWgIDQgfmC1NMsAA...

I agree. How is it that the Nassau GOP decided that this guy was their best option and let him go unopposed in the primary?

The Nassau GOP should fire their chairman and name bronz as successor.

[ProudModerate2]

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1608644999385649152

LMAO.
I love it.

[the artist formerly known as catmusic]

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1608626139404148736

This whole ordeal just keeps getting funnier and funnier. We're entering Four Seasons Total Landscaping levels of political comedy.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

So has anyone definitively determined whether Santos is actually an American citizen?
Seems like this should really be the first order of business in any investigations, since it is the one thing that could actually keep him from being sworn in to office next week.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Who cares about this. Politicians (such as Kamala Harris) lie all the time.

I'm very curious what you thought about Obama's alleged birth certificate fraud.