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“GOP Rep.-elect George Santos is facing growing condemnation from House Democrats, some of whom have called on him to step aside, and even from some corners of the GOP, with at least one of his fellow incoming Republicans calling for him to face an ethics investigation. House GOP leadership, however, remains silent over revelations that the New York Republican lied about parts of his biography.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/politics/george-santos-democrats-gop-leadership/index.html
Just more evidence of the moral depravity of the Republican Party and those leading it.
And Rupert Murdoch.
@ 1
Just more evidence of the moral depravity of the Republican Party and those leading it.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, do you recall how quickly Pelosi responded to Dollar Bill Jefferson’s criminality?
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, do you recall Pelosi’s tolerance of the corrupt Charlie Rangel?
I’m asking because you apparently think that there are no morally depraved Democratic leaders or rank-and-file members in Congress.
@3 From your 2nd link (the 1st one doesn’t work):
“Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing a growing chorus of calls to drop the hammer on ethics-challenged Charlie Rangel? … It would also infuriate the Congressional Black Caucus, which is still sore over Pelosi’s decision to strip committees from former Louisiana Rep. Bill Jefferson … ‘Unless they find $90,000 in his freezer, like they did with Jefferson, we’re going to wait [for the outcome of a House ethics probe],’ said a Democratic aide familiar with Pelosi’s thinking on the matter.”
So what we see is Pelosi stripped Jefferson’s committee after he was clearly guilty, and waited on Rangel for a finding of guilt. You know, that due process thing you don’t believe in.
(Rangel eventually was found guilty of ethics violations, was censured, and lost his Ways and Means chairmanship. Democrats punish wrongdoing, once it’s been established.)
Santos has confessed he lied, and lied, and lied, so there’s no real reason for McCarthy & Co. to wait. Santos’ guilt is right in front of them, staring them in their faces.
If lying about parts of one’s biography is an indication of moral depravity, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, what have you to say about Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who lied about his Vietnam record?
How about former Senator Tom Harkin, another Democrat, who did the same thing?
And then there are the too-numerous-to-list lies Biden tells about his historic exploits, including the ones he continues to tell even though the lies were publicly exposed.
What have you to say about those, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?
And shall we bring up John Kerry and Christmas in Cambodia? ’tis the season, after all.
Enjoy this one, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, although it wouldn’t have taken much for Democrats to do their homework and expose Santos’ lies before the election.
Just don’t continue to be the asshole who claims that moral depravity isn’t a frequent Democrat thing, too.
@ 4
First link works fine, but takes a bit longer to load. Here’s another version for those like yourself, who don’t have long to live.
Doctor Dumbfuck thinks according due process is the same thing as sweeping wrongdoing under the rug, because he’s a dumbfuck who doesn’t know the difference.
@6 From your link that works: “Pelosi explained that Democrats should be the party of ethics, that appearances count, that dealing forcefully with Jefferson’s scandal would help everyone else in the room.”
Doesn’t quite make your point, does it?
@ 8
My point was that Pelosi didn’t take out the trash.
Obama wanted Rangel gone in 2010. Instead, the POS stunk up the Demcorat side of the House aisle for another 6 years.
Blumenthal lied about his military service.
Harkin exaggerated his military service, claiming he flew combat patrols when he didn’t. His actual job was ferrying damaged aircraft. However, my online research indicates he flew in and out of Vietnam about a dozen times, picking up aircraft, which makes him a Vietnam veteran. Flying in and out of Vietnam was unsafe. Being on an airbase in Vietnam, even for a few hours, was unsafe. I’ll let it go at that. (If you ask any Vietnam vet what the criteria is, if you had both feet on the ground in-country, or served on a Navy ship off the coast, or flew overhead, for any length of time however brief, you’re a Vietnam veteran.) So that part wasn’t a lie. The “flying combat missions” was.
John Kerry is a war hero, and Jerome Corsi is a liar.
Lying is always bad, no matter who does it. Embellishing one’s military service is disrespectful to those who were in the shit, and isn’t done by people with moral compass, especially not by those who served. If you’re trying to goad me into saying what Blumenthal and Harkin did was okay, my response is it isn’t okay. What Santos did isn’t okay, either. Ball’s in your court.
Tulsi shredding Santos tonight.
And he still came off as more competent than Kamala did, when Tulsi was finished with her.
@9 “My point was that Pelosi didn’t take out the trash.”
Your waddaboutism is touching, but even if that were true it wouldn’t exempt McCarthy from taking out his trash.
@11 It’s nice to see your favorite Russian stooge is good for something.
@ 5
How the fuck did I forget to include Fauxchahontas in that list?
Clearly, I’m slipping. Or maybe it’s just Warren who is slipping, into irrelevance.
A lie isn’t a lie when it’s a Democrat telling it.
It will be a pretty big deal when it turns out that Joe Biden knew all about his son’s corruption, knew that 10% of it went to Jill and to him, and actively assisted his corruption while serving as Vice President.
@14 “Clearly, I’m slipping.”
You’re the very last person here to realize that, but better late than never.
“Or maybe it’s just Warren who is slipping, into irrelevance.”
She’s exactly where she’s most useful: On the Senate banking committee. And that’s where I hope she stays. Her job is to protect consumers, including you. I looked for a president elsewhere, and Biden is doing just fine.
And just like that, the Kenyan dude gets memory-holed.
@15 “It will be a pretty big deal when it turns out that Joe Biden knew all about his son’s corruption, knew that 10% of it went to Jill and to him, and actively assisted his corruption while serving as Vice President.”
Right now this is in the same category as Kari Lake’s election allegations were a week ago. Your allegations will get their day in court, too. Hers just did. My suggestion is don’t get too far over your skis on this, doc, lest you faceplant in the snow.
@ 17
Which of First Vegetable Joe Biden’s legislative accomplishments is more “significant” than
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
The Affordable Care Act?
Obama wasn’t my cup of tea, but there’s no denying his influence.
@17 Is that a problem?
@ 15
How MSNBC handles lies by Democrats.
@ 20
@17 Is that a problem?
Ask a black Democrat. Jim Clyburn, maybe, seeing as John Lewis isn’t available these days.
@19 Obama didn’t have to pull us out of a Great Depression because his decisions, and those of others (e.g. Bernanke), prevented one.
Biden faced a challenge of a different sort: Saving American democracy from a fascist coup, and preventing the next fascist coup attempt. He got some other things done, too.
Both were successful at playing the hand they were dealt. When was the last time a Republican president accomplished anything? You have to go back to H.W. Bush to find one who wasn’t a total fuckup.
@21 I’m curious why you quoted a rightwing propagandist instead of a more reputable source? To wit:
“According to The New York Times, Biden often embellishes elements of his life or exaggerates, a trait also noted by The New Yorker in 2014. For instance, Biden has claimed to have been more active in the civil rights movement than he actually was, and has falsely recalled being an excellent student who earned three college degrees. The Times wrote, ‘Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.'”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Reputation
Despite this, and I say despite it, it would be hard to argue that Biden has less moral compass than Santos has.
By the way, since we’re trafficking in allegations here, rumors are circulating that Santos’ campaign was bankrolled by Russians.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg
What’s not in question is they have a new friend in Congress.
@22 Is there some reason you don’t ask a black Republican, where you have better connections and don’t have to go through an intermediary?
I have things to do. It’s time for my workout in my private gym downstairs.
Donald “Daffy Duck” Trump should be hung by the scrotum.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143012407
Whaddabout.
Hmmm.
Whaddabout TSLA?
115.26!
Republicans are only 36% stupider, more irresponsible, more incompetent, and more dishonest than the were at the start of the month.
It’s going to be a glorious year in review this weekend.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
@27
It’s time for my workout in my private gym downstairs.
Plunger and a bucket.
Tonight I’m going to take my private garbage can out to the road.
And I’ll pick up the mail from our private mailbox.
Then I’ll walk back up our private road.
See, by overly using the word “private” I am pitifully attempting to introduce some cachet into my life. Like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit did @ 27.
In the rush to prop up a clearly incompetent vice president a year before primaries begin, Nina Turner takes down a guy who might actually be a decent president one day.
Although she may be right. After all, Obama gave young Julian Castro a job he had zero qualifications for in order to pad his resume just in case #CrookedHillary wanted a Hispanic as a running mate. He just wasn’t in the job long enough to cause problems. Or be noticed.
“Human cruelty reaches so deep that it desires to maintain power by snuffing out the lives of others! “
Rabbit. It’s amusing how much you got under the greedy racest incels skin.
@ 34
Rabbit. It’s amusing how much you got under the greedy racest incels skin.
The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, what term do you use for YLB, who is so upset that I am here that she mentions me in her screen name?
Looks like the S&P 500 will end the year in bear market territory. Right now this index is about 2% below the upper end of bear market range.
check out this Hetero Neanderthal. I’m sure David Attenborough would love to look at the details under a fine microscope. The extraordinary circumstances of the depth of HN Disease is incredible as to the great lengths will go thru to claim another victim. I mean, you are at work, your mind is racing unchecked because the disease attacks the brain with every bad meal cooked and served and the thought of every wrinkle in the un-ironed clothes, every nagging complaint by the bitch because you came home late with the scent of another woman. How dare she!
In this case the creativity of first mowing her down with the bus and then trying to finish her off with a stab to the body! And you still failed.
Oh this is a classic tale of HN Disease. Ladies buy a vibrator, the worst that happens is you might get a little zap of electricity on the clit.
https://qns.com/2022/12/bus-drive-attempted-murder-flushing/
Hey thanks for that meme! You’re not all that worthless
@3
You see if you go back 14 & 15 years ago you can find two ethically challenged Democrats with little pushback. And then you have to ignore more recent examples like Weiner(savage), Conyers and Franken.
So then you look at the CURRENT GOP ledger and you find:
Gym Jordan (sexual groomer), Insurrectionist, Potential Speaker of the house
MTG, Open racist, harassar of children, professional troll and insurrectionist.
Boehbert – Multiple arrests, threats of violence, Insurrectionist
King, Open racist
Goehmert, Open Racist, Insurrectionist
Kennedy, Open Racist, Insurrectionist
Gossar, Insurrectionist, promised pardons for convicted insurrectionists
Brooks, Insurrectionist
You were saying something about the depraved Democrats of the previous decade?
39 – “open” racist Republicans versus “closed” racist Democrats.
Just curious…
Would selling an NFT of all your great career highlights including THIS be stollen valor.
what if just your fanboys paint you in fatigues on the battlefield?
What if you had a badge?
so upset that I am here
Overjoyed actually.. I’m here till the server goes cold. And so are you.. unless “that certain day” comes first and my kids benefit bigly – at least according to your own babbling.
But I’m supposedly a guy who lives in a donated tent in a Seattle briar patch, eating ramen from a food bank and writing this from an Obama phone when the library’s not open.
And you’re a guy who babbles it’s got it made.
Heh. Who’s making better use of their time? What speaks more to whose “intelligence”…
Please more of the same from you.. yawwwwwnnnn.. It’s boring but we all need to be amused somehow.
Case in point:
mentions me
Thank you for confirming that your babbling here is kreepy shit.
More of the same please. It only helps make our point. Thanks again.
@ 39
…two ethically challenged Democrats with little pushback.
Oh, the CBC pushes back plenty.
There’s JJ Jr and Corinne Brown, off the top of my head.
The two mentioned upthread and the two I just mentioned have one thing in common. They were all members of the CBC.
Oh. Three of the four, I believe, went to prison. So there’s apparently something there. At one point in 2010 there were eight open ethics investigations into House members, and each and every one of them was a member of the CBC.
Didja know Maxine Waters has paid her daughter nearly $50,000 so far this year?
@30 I’m not the guy in hip boots who spends his days shoveling manure out a barn door.
@31 And then you’ll hop in your F-250 and drive 10 miles to a gym, spewing diesel smoke all the way, to work off some of your belly fat.
@34 “Rabbit. It’s amusing how much you got under the greedy racest incels skin.”
Definitely worth the tiny modicum of effort required. I say “tiny” because he makes himself an easy target. Worth it because the returns in satisfaction far outweigh the expenditure of effort.
@35 ” … who is so upset that I am here that … ”
Not me! I hope I’ve made myself clear that I want you here.
Kinda in the same way that a duck hunter wants ducks on his pond.
@36 “Looks like the S&P 500 will end the year in bear market territory.”
Not me! Right now my stocks are up 1.9% for the year, excluding dividends.
@38 His portfolio probably is pretty close to worthless by now. Mine is still worth over $1 million.
@39 He also tried to compare Biden to Santos. Biden’s fibs aren’t laudable, but Joe didn’t fabricate his entire life history and that of his ancestors as well.
There are other important differences, too. Santos isn’t the least bit remorseful, he’s trying to shift blame and engaging in whataboutism, he attacked the New York Times for reporting his lies, he falsely claims everyone else does it just as much as he does, and — most importantly — he doesn’t see anything wrong with lying. The more he opens his mouth, the sleazier he looks.
The more Biden opens his mouth, the sleepier he looks. Just ask doc.
Nor was Biden’s campaign financed by Russians.
@40 “39 – ‘open’ racist Republicans versus ‘closed’ racist Democrats.”
They’re all in your party now, and have been ever since Nixon adopted his “southern strategy,” an open and calculated attempt to lure into the GOP all the racists angered by LBJ’s support of civil rights legislation. And the Republican Party has been sucking up to them ever since.
@41 In that particular case, I think yes.
It’s possible, though, that Fred Trump bought his toddler son a jet pilot costume to wear when flying kites.
@43 “Three of the four, I believe, went to prison.”
That’s the point the dumbfuck can’t comprehend. When Democrats do it, they go to prison. When Republicans do it, there’s no punishment. Democrats condemn bad behavior; Republicans glorify it.
“Since Trump took over the party, they’ve suffered at the ballot box. They lost the House in 2018. They lost the White House and Senate in 2020 and this year was what the Times called a ‘history-defying disappointment.’ Instead of blaming Trump, however, they’re looking at McDaniel to blame.”
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-chair-battle/
That’s what a scapegoat is for.
Hetero Neanderthals won’t be doing any of that!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmM5rUJjVxw/?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=
12 years. getting closer.
Did you know that none other than ultra MAGA conservative Dave Ramsey recommends paying your adult children as much as humanely possible as the tax break of having employees is a great method of preserving wealth?
Whaddabout?
Whaddabout poor fucking Kevin who really did not need one more “Quality” Republican splitting his conference apart and fucking up his Speakership.
Kevin is going to be tonguing the gym rat semen out of MTG’s sweaty cooch for the rest of his miserable Congressional career.
And he will be the highest ranking Republican in the United States. What the fuck even are Republicans at this point?
It was only 2-3 days ago where I said that this should happen.
I am 2-3 steps ahead of the rest!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-biden-considers-china-new-covid-rules-travel-virus-spreads-rcna63435
I’d make them quarantine for a couple of days too. And make them track and limit there where abouts.
And just not anyone coming from China but anyone who’s been in China and coming into this country.
uhhhh, poor kevin, but it couldn’t have happened to anyone better!
Maybe HN STD will get MTG first and save him.
@56
Jeffery Dahmer, Jeffery Dahmer, Jeffery Dahmer.
Guys!? Is this ever going to stop?
Baby Killers are chasing pedophiles in Basement Pizza Parlors with fake Sherrif Badges.
https://weartv.com/news/local/police-woman-killed-in-domestic-violence-incident-in-crestview
Hetero Neanderthal Disease the STD of the Century!
https://weartv.com/news/local/report-man-tried-to-meet-girl-in-pensacola-for-sex-messaged-i-am-a-big-pervert#
#HeteroNeanderthalDisease #HeteroSTD
Tweet Tweet Elon
https://weartv.com/news/local/florida-doctor-accused-of-raping-sedated-patients-found-dead-in-ditch
Anyone can call themselves a Doctor!
#HeteroNeanderthalDoctorDiseases
https://weartv.com/news/nation-world/sheriff-florida-man-kills-mom-saying-she-never-pushed-me-to-be-a-man-kissimmee-osceola-county-sheriffs-office-woman-stabbed-to-death
#DeathSantisHetero
“I’ve done some dumb things, and I’ll do dumb things again. I’ve done some dumb things as senator, and I’ve done some dumb things as a lawyer. Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been dumb,” then-Sen. Joe Biden said during his failed 1988 presidential campaign over allegations he was a serial plagiarist.
Politico deputy managing editor Sam Stein asked if there had ever been a situation on par with Santos’ made-up history.
“Has Congress ever had someone with so many remarkable biographical holes?” he wondered
The answer is yes – and that “someone” is named Joe Biden.
Take, for instance, the repeated lies he told about his and his family’s history while on the campaign trail during his failed 1988 presidential run. Not only was he untruthful about his life story, but he also was caught numerous times lifting passages from the speeches of other prominent politicos, including Robert Kennedy and JFK, without attribution
Biden’s excuses for what he’d said at the time were to blame his staff and to suggest there was nothing deliberately underhanded about what had happened:
Biden blamed his aides for putting that pilfered prose in his mouth.
“I write my own speeches,” he claimed. “This speech I did not write. I honestly thought the paragraph was a piece of brilliant work by my staff.”
Biden’s bottom line — I’m not dishonest, I’m stupid:
“I’ve done some dumb things, and I’ll do dumb things again. I’ve done some dumb things as senator, and I’ve done some dumb things as a lawyer,” he confessed. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been dumb.”
https://weartv.com/news/nation-world/man-convicted-of-manslaughter-for-killing-someone-who-complimented-his-girlfriend-manslaughter-murder-homicide-first-degree-assault-bend-oregon-ian-cranston-fatally-shot-barry-washington-jr
#HeteroNeanderthalDisease #HeteroSTD
The Sunshine State!
https://weartv.com/news/nation-world/cadet-sentenced-years-after-messing-with-ex-her-new-beau-in-lieutenant-dads-patrol-car
#HeteroSunshine
https://youtu.be/TplaQhVNUKk
Hetero Neanderthals Happily Married killing wives, children and pets.
I love this song. Repukes – old white men, not grateful, killing Neanderthals.
@57 “What the fuck even are Republicans at this point?”
A laughingstock. For example, the voters of Nye County, Nevada, who elected the GOP commissioners who appointed this nutjob without a law degree “over 17 other applicants” will deserve everything their new judge does to them while the rest of the world laughs at them.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-firebrand-michele-fiore-appointed-211904010.html
@65 Santos’ pitch to his fellow Republicans essentially is that he’s as stupid and dishonest as Biden. I wonder if they’ll take that into consideration when deciding on his committee assignments?
This plot is getting thicker than pea soup.
NFT International, the releasing company for a totally upstanding former President who would naturally have legit businesses banging on his door to work with him and give him book deals and paid speeches….is a PO box at a strip mall in Utah.
BUT WAIT…There’s MORE!
The PO box traces back to a company that provides a physical address for a shit ton of shell companies called “Wyoming Corporate Services”.
SO HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK THAT’S WORTH?
The registered address is 2710 Thomes Ave in Cheyenne, Wyoming which is a single family dwelling where more than 40 businesses have been established by a Gerald Pitts.
WE’LL EVEN THROW IN A SECOND ONE FREE!
One of those businesses is tied to Pavlo Lazarenko. If that name is familiar, he served eight years in a California prison for money-laundering and extortion as a result of his stealing millions and hiding it in shell companies when he was the former Prime Minister of….wait for it…UKRAINE! During his time in office it is widely speculated that he also murdered several political opponents.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
The UN published a report alleging that during Lazarenko’s term as both Vice Prime Minister and Prime Minister $200M went directly from the fledgling Ukrainian governmental accounts into his shell accounts.
So how does a fine upstanding, trustworthy former President of the United States end up mixed up with a convicted Pro Russian Ukranian living in exile in the United States with what is believed to be at least $100M in looted assets?
But if you act now
The same address in Wyoming is tied to Ira Rubin a credit card fraudster whose 22 shell companies over the years engaged in a wild number of payment processing scams leading to a lifetime ban of his Global Marketing Group and permanently banning him personally from ever engaging in Telemarketing or Payment activities. Rubin’s companies took hundreds of thousands of application for ‘secured’ cards where a $1000 deposit would “repair your credit”. The cards were never issued and most lost their deposit.
Again, how does a former President, which has a certain Gravitas and Credibility attached to the office end up making a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT live on his streaming channel involving nothing but shady ass people and plagiarized images. Is it that no legitimate company or artist will jump at the chance to issue the TRUMP™ Presidential historical merch?
Inquiring minds want to know.
@71,
Um, uh, lemme see… (soft fart noise)…
Okay Got it.
LAPTOP?
@71 Behold the world headquarters of countless global marketing firms.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2710-Thomes-Ave_Cheyenne_WY_82001_M73848-86114
The J6 committee has withdrawn the subpoena issued to one Donald J. Trump.
Apparently his testimony is not needed, as he has instead been convicted in absentia by that kangaroo court.