What a piece of work is man, wrote the Bard. And I would give real money to see what the Bard would have said about George Santos. What’s that you say? There was nobody that effed up back in the 1600’s? I beg to differ. The prototypes of human nature have always been with us. Santos existed in some form in Shakespeare’s day.
Santos was probably a bit like Puck, if Puck had been a megalomaniac and a crook. Puck wanted to play all the parts and so does Santos. And he wants to be compensated for doing so.
No matter what happens, Santos sees a way to turn a buck. If he’s standing in line at Starbuck’s, somebody should pay him. If a journalist asks, “How are you this morning?” Santos expects a check. This is going to be his undoing.
Ari Melber has put it all together.
The only progress that Kevin McCarthy has made vis a vis Santos is that he “won’t vote for him for reelection.” Um…that’s probably because you don’t live in his district, Kev.
But hey, we’re pleased with progress in any form, right? Any form, any amount.
What is comical about Santos is that he flat out doesn’t get it, that what he has done are acts which can put him away for a very, very long time. But he will get it. Too late, to be sure, but he’ll figure it out. And he’ll have a lot of time to figure it all out, on that you may depend.
All the little crooks think they can be like Trump, and lie with impunity.
But, as he’s discovering now, not even Trump can get away with being Trump.
Oh, he’ll get it alright. Given his nature he’ll try to scam fellow prisoners. I’ve been in prisons (after my playing days in college was part of a group of former college and star h.s. guys who didn’t play college ball we’d play games at the fed prison in Marion & the state one at Chester) and one can easily think some of these guys aren’t so dangerous or all that bad. Then you ask a guard why they’re there and “uh oh!” Georgie will probably figure he can flim flam them and play up “connections” he’d developed being a Congress Critter. Some prisoners might even knowingly set him up for failure to deliver what they believe he CAN’T – just for fun. And when payback for failure to deliver on promises come, well little George Santos will get quite the lesson in what the word “Sorry” means.
A George Santos for president exploratory committee? I think the Constitution says presidents must be born in the country. But not a problem for Santos. He was actually born in Knob Creek, Kentucky, near where his great-great grandfather, Abraham Lincoln was born, and was kidnapped at birth by a woman who raised him in Brazil and told him that one day he would return home to become president. Think of the book and movie rights, and licensing possibilities: adorable girl and boy George dolls that tell a new lie each time you press their belly buttons, non-fungible tokens with George dressed in all sorts of exotic attire in dramatic poses. George reclining on the Resolute desk in flaming red baby dolls with ermine trim and black net stockings would be an instant sell-out. Why not? Things have changed in the past three cycles. The sky’s the limit, and reality is what you want it to be.
If this were science fiction he’d be some shape-shifter species from Star Trek or Star Wars. Closer to real life we have chameleons which have the ability to change their colors to match surrounding background. Georgie poo is a human version, changing himself into whatever he thinks he has to be at the moment using everything from fake credentials to clothing (i.e. drag). George Santos, human chameleon. That makes me think of a Culture Club tune from way back. I was never a fan of Boy George and Culture Club but there was a time there when you couldn’t avoid Karma Chameleon and I looked it up just to make sure one verse was as I remember:
I’m a man (a man) without conviction
I’m a man (a man) who doesn’t know
How to sell (to sell) a contradiction
You come and go, you come and go
Back when I was a youth we had a name for people like him.
Jive A$s.
Then again, that fits for everyone in the republiCLOWN party!
That born in this country thing couldn’t be much of a barrier-cruz ran and he was not physically born in the U.S.
“Natural-born citizen” doesn’t require being born in the US. It does require at least one parent who’s a citizen, though. (Cruz is still iffy that way.)
It’s called “born abroad of American parents”. My two youngest were born in Germany.
The photo reminds me of the phrase ‘lipstick on a pig’.
Remember, Craven McCarthy is a Republican.
He probably votes in several districts.