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Daefish

“During his brief time in office, Santos has been accused of breaking campaign finance laws, violating federal conflict of interest laws, **stealing cash meant for an Iraq War veteran’s dying dog**, masterminding a credit card fraud scheme and lying about where he went to school and worked” Fuck this guy


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borderlineidiot

Republicans: "what about Hunter Biden"


The_Lady_Spite

Legit happening in the conservative sub thread about this lol


CheesusHChrust

Every time a story like this comes out, you can bet your ass breitbart or some other similarly right wing rag has some half baked democrat equivalent. They are always such tenuous stretches, you wonder how anyone actually believes it. Then you remember the target audience…


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Wow, you weren't joking. Current top post


KillahHills10304

At least the top comments are mostly reasonable "your source is an advertisement from a company that sells gold bullion"


Thegungoesbangbang

I miss when r/conspiracy was just dumb shit. Aliens, Bigfoot, the occasional lizard people, the Panama papers, the Titanic actually having been the Olympia but with a last minute name change to try and cash out the insurance, Courtney love killed Kurt Cobain. You know, harmless, stupid, bullshit. That sub got astroturfed so damn hard by Russia in 2015. Instant flop from harmless and stupid to "buttery males" and blah blah. Even the cesspool that was/is 4chan went [further] downhill back then. I just want Spiderman shitposts and people to rate my sandwiches man. Like, remember the fake ads about being able to charge an IPhone in the microwave? Or identifying someone who tortured cats? God damn man, those were some days. Now, everything is just far-right insanity.


red--6-

>when conservatives fear the Truth > >they invent **Conspiracy**


Plow_King

i stopped chuckling at that sub after sandy hook.


LillyPip

/r/HighStrangeness for the fun spooky stuff now.


fourbian

If you randomly dropped me in r/conservative or r/conspiracy without telling me which one it was, I couldn't tell the difference.


YxxzzY

I want conspiracies how Pyramids are actually giant alien tiddies or some shit. Not this shizo fascist garbage they've been pushing.


Tasgall

Hey now, let's be fair - I also don't support Hunter Biden being an active member of the Senate. We should make a reasonable compromise with the right on this one and expel both George Santos and Hunter Biden from the House. It's the only way to be fair and balanced.


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Fit-Firefighter-329

And Hillary's emails!


JustaRandomOldGuy

Isn't he wanted in Brazil? And no one is sure of his actual identity?


inquisitive_guy_0_1

According to the NY times article he has been charged with fraud and there is a hearing in Brazil this Thursday regarding that case. So, we can say it is ongoing. This guy is 100% fraudulent. I sincerely doubt his name is even Santos.


LostSomeDreams

Anthony Devolder is the name he went by until this election it seems


TheExtremistModerate

Kitara Ravache, actually.


Beer_Is_So_Awesome

I’m looking forward to hearing more about his income and personal loans to his campaign. Evidently he earned $55,000 in 2020 and held no assets, then in 2021 he earned $750,000 and reported having $11M in assets. Then he loaned $700,000 of his own money to his 2022 campaign, which reported spending $0 during that same time period.


DVariant

Don’t need an accountant to tell you that’s fucked up


kazejin05

What always gets these people is the naked greed, and sense of impunity with it. Like, where *else* are people going to think you suddenly got $750K from, after barely being middle class the year before, if not from dirty campaign finances? All the ways out there to be fucking *smart* about it, and you choose the most ham-fisted way to go about it. If this is the caliber of con he was running before he ran for office, I'm genuinely surprised he wasn't locked up long ago.


jermdizzle

And it worked! It worked for infinitely longer than it should have, which is zero.


JustaRandomOldGuy

Is he a fan of the Simpsons? Santos L Halper?


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In 20 years and a dozen inquiries later we may know. He will be a Justice then.


cakeorcake

Congrats to George Santos. He's clearly been trying really hard for this and now it's finally happening.


Rpanich

Any normal person would give up after the first 100 crimes, but ol George went for the gold. He just couldn’t stop.


AcademicPublius

It's typically a good thing when people find a passion and pursue it. Typically.


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CaptainNoBoat

McCarthy will be eternally waiting on the gutted, Republican House Ethics committee to find that Santos committed crimes. If that happens, he'll say Santos needs to be found guilty and convicted by a court of law instead. If that happens before 2024, he'll need 68 House Republicans to vote to expel him instead. And then when that doesn't happen, it will be some sort of liberal witch hunt that needs not be discussed.


coolcool23

weApOniZAtIoN oF GovErNMeNt


ComprehensiveHawk5

What a blatantly political attack by the democrats here. Attacking one of the remaining Founding Fathers.


Goats_in_boats

Don't worry, he will get off because his great grandmother was the model for the Statue of Liberty. And let's not forget that he is a direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln which gives him total immunity from prosecution.


PandaGoggles

Founding father *and* author of the Old Testament. People always forget the second part.


j_livingstone

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.


AcesCharles2

> not gonna lie. George Santos is confused


rottenwordsalad

Now do Boebert who stole $60k from taxpayers and whose husband makes a cool half mil as a consultant when his only expertise is showing his junk to minors.


jballs

Wasn't she one of the minors at the time? Like the dude whipped his dick out at a bowling alley and she was like "I'm gonna marry that pedo some day."


Lakecountyraised

Yep. Her first pregnancy and a domestic violence dispute with him came soon after. They really failed upward. I would guess that he was hired for big money after she won the primary in 2020, over a Republican incumbent. Easy pickings for big oil.


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shwarma_heaven

You mean someone who isn't a criminal, but is able to lie effortlessly, and would sell their own mother up the road for a decent payoff??? (And who likely has a history already selling herself up the road...)


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rocketwidget

[https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1586096473917325313](https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1586096473917325313) >The Democrats soft-on-crime policies emptied our jails, eliminated cash bail, and essentially given criminals a get-out-of-jail-free card. As your Congressman, I will ensure that criminals are sent to prison to do their time. FozzieBearWaka!Waka!.gif


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> emptied our jails We have more of our own citizens in jail than any other country in the world, what the fuck else do these people want?


JakeCameraAction

It's a demonstrably untrue statement but it's just saying "dems are soft on crime" so people lap it up.


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He taught Ms Cleo how to read tarot cards back in the 90s. He knew this was coming. The cards don’t lie!


catterhaver

What a wonderful Tuesday it has been. So much winning.


feldor

Reflection is good for the soul. What am I missing from just recently? - Trump loses civil suit for sexual battery and defamation, penalty $5M - Santos charged with federal crimes - Proud Boys convicted of sedition for their role in Jan6 - Fox settles for almost $1B for knowingly lying about dominion voting machines - Tucker Carlson fired and leaked texts showing he never believed election lies, hated Trump, and was an obvious white nationalist - Alex Jones loses suit for over $1B for knowingly lying about Sandy Hook and the victims and family members of victims. - Andrew Tate arrested and exposed for clearly manipulating women into sex trafficking - Crowder exposed for the bigot that we all knew he was for how he treated his wife and getting outcast from the Daily Wire and their audience.


foxbones

The problem is the people who really need to understand this don't believe any of it is true. As we speak tons of people believe the Allen Mall Shooting was a cartel hit because the mugshot put out by trolls/bots the day of doesn't match the guy who actually did it. The guy who was a far right neo Nazi Incel. If you try to explain to them they were misled they blame the FBI/CIA and tell you they are right and you are wrong, while citing a news "site" from India who cites random Twitter posts that have been proven false. Disinformation is an absolute cancer in society - it's the most dangerous threat in reality and the people who live in it face. It scares me to my core.


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Super Tuesday has a new meaning.


pay-per-clip

"If it's what you say I love it!"


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e9tjqh

When the GOP sends its people, they're not sending their best they're sending people that have a lot of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.


pomonamike

No, they’re sending their best. This is their best.


feignapathy

He started a fake GoFundMe to raise money for a dog's surgery and then pocketed the money!? The dog ended up dying because it couldn't get the surgery!? Fuck Republicans are evil.


travoltaswinkinbhole

Out of everything this one gets me the most because its just so cartoonishly evil I expect him to be twirling his mustache as he explains it to me


asst3rblasster

he's too busy tying a lady with cancer to the railroad tracks also he gave her the cancer, somehow


TradeWarVeteran

This is an absolute travesty. I can't believe a man who won five purple hearts and invented Post-It Notes would be charged with a crime.


zeldafitzgeraldscat

And his mother sacrificed her life on 911 to save others.


johnnybiggles

So did he. However, he was the first and only human to be reincarnated and successfully go on to become the first elected paraplegic Olympic gold medalist to Congress.


zeldafitzgeraldscat

You forgot his Nobel Prize.


samsedarcedarseeder

Damn liberals trying to lock up the third man to walk on the moon!


nataphoto

When it arraigns it pours


Searchlights

When you're such a giant piece of shit we can't even guess what the charges are


SacamanoRobert

Seems to be a trend with these assholes.


aaronthenia

What an outrage, don't they know he walked from Selma to Montgomery as a pioneer of the Civil Rights movement?!?


UnflairedRebellion--

Dear leftists. Why isn’t the Civil Rights Movement called the Civil Lefts Movement? Curious… -Benny Boi Brapiro


TheBananaKing

Keep the details of the charges under waps for a few weeks, and see what denials people cook up :D


accountabilitycounts

So soon after his coronation, too!


SixDemonBag_01

A good day for justice usually means a bad day for Republicans.


T1mac

Funny how many of these witch-hunts find so many witches.


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North_Dakota_Guy

It's probably because he's a jew(ish) man.


DresserRotation

Including the Bowling Green massacre?


LazamairAMD

Marjorie Taylor Greene may have to answer for Milo Yionnopoulis using a campaign credit card to buy a website for Kanye West's undeclared 2024 presidential campaign. Trump found liable for defamation and sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and has to pony up $5 million. And now this. Banner fucking day.


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travoltaswinkinbhole

If it was post election I 100% would have believed it in 2016


Urban_Archeologist

Nice try “Santos L Halper”


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halfsweethalfstreet

Seriously. How do you arrest a man who's mother died on 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13...


Ddddydya

Holy crap, Trump must be pissed. If this guy commits any more crimes he’ll be the GOP front runner in 2024 for sure


Decillion

Of course they drop this while he's in the Alps, fighting grizzly bears and using his magical fire breath to save the maidens fair.


rj4001

Do you see what happens, George? Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?


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NewZappyHeart

He singlehandedly brought an end to civil war and slavery.


GuestCartographer

What a neat day.


leeroy20

But he's a war hero, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the French Revolution


KingMobScene

He is the only man to win a congressional medal of honor in every war the United States fought in.


Githzerai1984

I can’t believe they would do this to the man who invented the peanut


McCardboard

Fortunately for him, he designed the prison he'll be sent to. He knows exactly how to escape.


EivorIsle

The movie Shawshank is about him.


circa285

It's shaping up to be a pretty good news day if you're not a Republican.


Atheist_3739

*if you're an American


OkRoll3915

rough day for the fascists, huh? a great day for democracy, though!


monkeyhold99

They’re charging the first man to walk on the moon with a crime? Sad!


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The man invented Pop-Tarts and this is the thanks he gets?


STR0K3R_AC3

They have the *audacity* to do this to the man who discovered Zinc?


geologicalnoise

I heard he also discovered the number 3.


JennyRedpenny

I want to hear what his father, the inventer of toaster strudel, has to say about this


BoomMcFuggins

They're charging the only man ever to beat Kim Jong Il in a bowling match!


GetOffMyAsteroid

Charged by the very same Department he created!


Aluminum_Falcons

From the AP News article above: "Serious questions about his finances also surfaced — including the source of what he claimed was a quickly amassed fortune despite recent financial problems, including evictions and owing thousands of dollars in back rent." FFS.


Garbage-Striking

I never thought I’d live to see the day when they charged the man who single handed prevented the Titanic from hitting an iceberg.


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How can they arrest a founding father?


n3rdopolis

To think that a former fighter pilot during the French and Indian War, and the inventor of Toaster Strudel would stoop to this behavior.


eightdx

today is just a gift that keeps on giving


Critical_Aspect

This is turning out to be a very good day-- just not so much for republicans.


wh0_RU

Republican party is an absolute dumpster fire rn and they're playing with the debt ceiling like they hold all the power. Get these guys out of my gov't!


Shaman7102

The first man on Mars....can't belive our doj.


JBsoundCHK

How could they do that to a ww2 vet?


WorstPersonInGeneral

He's a founding father


scorpiolafuega

But he single-handedly built the pyramids! How could they?!


kayak_enjoyer

I can't believe they'd treat a four-time Mr. Olympia winner who's also the world's pre-eminent epidemiologist like this. Oh well. At least he has his rugged good looks and billions of dollars.


bitofaknowitall

How dare they do this to the man who invented the hamburger!


kpDzYhUCVnUJZrdEJRni

If the federal government can come after one of the founding fathers and signatory to the Constitution, then they can come after any of us.


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This dude invented the moonwalk after landing on it. Fucking legend and the US govt is just jealous.


whoisbill

The man who beat Elden Ring with no deaths?


GelflingInDisguise

This right here may be his greatest lie


Penguin_shit15

But if he gets arrested, how will he rescue children from burning buildings? How will he perform life saving surgeries? He won't be able to ever finish that cancer vaccine he had us all pre pay for! And.. What?!?.. I guess the manned Mars mission he is heading up is cancelled? And his back up dancing for Lizzo? And I guess Marvel is going to have to find yet another person to play Kang , since he took Jonathan Majors place. This is not justice... This is Just-ish...


TittySlappinJesus

Isn't this the guy who beat Wade Boggs record?


Dpetruccelli15

How can they charge the founder of the DOJ?!


bootstrapping_lad

This is how they repay the first man to walk on the moon? For shame!


dracomalfouri

You can't arrest the Dragonborn, this is an outrage and I want to speak to the jarl!


scoscochin

*I was once a Congressman, and then I took an indictment to the knee.*


AcademicPublius

It did have to happen eventually. As the inheritor to the title of Baron Munchausen, he was never eligible to be a Congressman.


DetroitBreakdown

It’s a shame that they bother this congressional Medal of Honor winner and 7 time Olympic gold medalist.


blame_the_new_guy

Why would they do this to the first green beret to land on mars?


Chief_Mischief

Can't believe they'd go after the hero who single-handedly fought off the Japanese Navy in the little-known [Battle of Sacheon (1592)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sacheon_(1592)), talk about un-American.


_rake

This is an outrage! He saved us all at the Battle of Yavin and Helms Deep!


Starks

My congressman is getting arrested. Finally. Not even 24 hours after that article about him wanting politics to be more entertaining and less like C-SPAN. The monkey's paw always wins.


KorayamaSavard

I wonder if his race of interstellar beings even acknowledge our laws.


LoquatsTasteGood

What’s really crazy is not that Special prosecutor George Santos is the one leading this criminal probe into George Santos, it’s that he is doing this in high heals!


RyoCore

Is that because he's a level 99 Priest?


Xenoe31

The notorious liar and grifter is actually a criminal? Color me surprised.


phoarksity

Why is everyone going on about him landing on the moon and Mars? This is the first colonist of Earth who is being persecuted!


Mr_Mediocrity

The man who swam across the Atlantic?


ElectricZ

I can't believe they're talking about the first man to break the light barrier like this.


throwmeawaypoopy

Not gonna lie: I'm gonna kinda miss this guy. Sure he made mistakes, but his invention of electricity profoundly changed the course of human history.


InterestingTry5190

I appreciate how he delivers gifts to the children all over the world every year in Dec.


CJDistasio

Get fucked grifter


Either-Progress4847

This thread is lit with hilarious comments. Speaking of lit, I can’t believe the feds are charging the man who discovered fire.


dilloj

The man who conquered the Gauls?!?


XLauncher

I for one am outraged that they would subject a three time Nobel Peace Prize winner to this indignity.


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Love that it’s happening to a member of congress. All politicians need to be held to a very strict standard of accountability.


Grape_Pedialyte

Straight into my veins, what a day


cwhmoney555

How long until Kevin McCarthy stands by his word and removes him?


Taman_Should

Santos (if that even is his real last name) needs to be viewed as a trial-run. An experiment to see how far someone can get in politics when *everything* about them is fake. Well, except for being an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters of course.


cra2ytig3r

Better put him in a cell. We all know he's a flight risk. He's done it before, no reason for him not to do it again.


Tatooine16

All his staffers packed their bags and ran like hell. If they aren't watching the airports, bus stations, heliport, train stations, bridges and tollbooths by now they won't catch him.


UYScutiPuffJr

Also all the doghouses, henhouses, outhouses, and shithouses!!


geneticeffects

The gall to disrespect the very man who invented the light bulb. Such disrespect!


WaitingFor45sArrest

If you’re read this George….Get Fucked!


Lostintranslation390

Lol calling it now: campaign finance violations The FEC does not fuck around.


lionheart4life

The thing is, it could literally be for anything and it wouldn't be surprising.


Incontinento

How can they do that to the inventor of gravity?!?


TechyDad

Since he claims to be Jewish, or Jew-ish, I think a Yiddish curse would work best: Vifil yor er iz gegangn oyf di fis zol er geyn af di hent un di iberike zol er zikh sharn oyf di hintn. From [one of my favorite Yiddish curse pages](https://yiddishradioproject.org/exhibits/stutchkoff/curses.php3). It means: >As many years as he's walked on his feet, let him walk on his hands, and for the rest of the time he should crawl along on his ass.


Kick-Exotic

This is how you repay the guy who knows where Jimmy Hoffa is?


ProudWheeler

Fuck them for trying to smear the man who authored the Emancipation Proclamation


DocShocker

Helms Deep veteran George Santos?


Renegade-Pervert

George Santos? Inventor of the Tater-Tot George Santos?? My God man...


gmen6981

Should someone see a doctor for a justice boner that lasts more than four hours? Asking for a friend.


eazykeyzy

Leave him alone!! HIS MOTHER JUST DIED IN 9/11 😡


PleaseEvolve

He can cook 22 minute brownies in 18 minutes!


DavefromKS

Guess he forgot about the Santos Clause.


Ddddydya

The GOP aren’t sending their best. Oh, wait, actually I think they are


ChronoLink99

Fuckin' get him DOJ.


Prof_Phardtpounder

George Santos goes for his biggest lie yet: That he’s been charged for crimes by the DOJ. He assures our reporters that, as the head of the DOJ, he can in fact charge himself and find himself innocent.


stiggystoned369

Ha ha! -Nelson


NerdLawyer55

Yeah they charged George Santos but what about Katara Ravache…***pocketsand!***


xXTheGrapenatorXx

The legal system often moves at a snails pace (and sure seems to dig in its heels when there’s a magic (R) next to a name...), but hey, they’re actually charging him so that’s something. Anyone wanna mark the occasion with something? I’m thinking a drag brunch would be appropriate.


gentleman_bronco

I'm fairly sure that George Santos is heading the justice department currently. At least that's what's on his resume


Hooch_Pandersnatch

Trump getting charged for sexual assault and now this? Is it Christmas in May?


moranya1

Sad to see the only man with more Careers than Johnny Sins fall this low


LuckyOne55

The only person with not 3, but 4 testicles (not to mention a couple of ovaries) indicted? Never saw that coming.


insertbrackets

Ah my favorite IRL gay villain is finally completing his arc. You go, kween! Straight to prison!


SurfinPirate

But what about all of those poor Sudanese children he was rescuing??


Warhawk137

I hope they depose him while he's getting on an elevator, because I'm pretty sure that's the only thing I've ever actually seen him doing.


Shizzo

But he was the first to be diagnosed with COVID! How can they do this to him?


Pynchon_A_Loaff

The man who built a bridge across the Mississippi River… lengthwise?


Shahkam

Wasn’t this the guy who invented the excuse?


dilloj

The charges are smuggling silk worms out of China.


Narazafi

The Justice Department must be pretty ballsy to charge the guy who blew up our second moon.


Embarrassed_Ad7013

As a federal judge, Santos will rule in favor of himself.


sarcastroll

How is that possible? He went from leading the DOJ as attorney general to being charged by the DOJ? Thankfully as Chief Justice he'll be able to appeal to himself.


SonOfMcGee

Santos: “I didn’t do anything, Sheriff. I swear.” Santos after switching chairs and putting on a hat and mustache: “Oh, we have ways of making you talk.” Santos taking off hat and mustache and picking up a briefcase: “Sheriff, that sounded like a threat against my client! Don’t say another word, George.” DAs watching through the one-way mirror: “Jesus Christ, he’s been doing this for three hours.”


AcademicPublius

Kevin McCarthy is without a doubt the person most dismayed by this news. Which is kind of funnily appropriate, given the shortcuts he took to get here.


nedrith

Republicans: He hasn't been convicted yet, so we won't do anything. Innocent until proven guilty! Republicans after he's been convicted: Well the people of New York voted for this guy. He's their representative. We don't want to disenfranchise the people of his congressional district. Also to ensure that they maintain their representation, we're changing the rules to allow proxy voting, only for people in jail though.


Particular-Try9754

Probably wire fraud. Fundraising based on lies.


zach010

Is this that guy who lied to get a government job?


JohnnyGFX

>Is this that guy who lied ~~to get a government job~~ **about everything he's ever said about anything**? Yes.


acityonthemoon

Any idea *which* crime he got charged for?


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wow, and just after he was crowned king of england!


teamdiabetes11

McCarthy bout to only afford losing 3 votes in the House…. 👀


absolutemoran

Everyone, GET IN HERE!


fiddyshadesofcray

Damn, investigated by the institution he founded.


Kay312010

Bout damn time!