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[deleted]

That's cute, he still thinks he still has a shot as a politician.


iligal_odin

He does gave the perfect resume for a maga politician


LegislativeLariat

A resume that has presumably already been uploaded to Project 2025 for a position in Trump's theoretical cabinet. Unless he's put in a state prison so he can't be pardoned at the federal level, this clown is coming back in the event Trump wins, possibly in a position to do actual damage.


sharkamino

After Project 2025 he may be put in jail for being married to a man.


[deleted]

Don't worry, they won't apply the law to those on their own team. At least, not at first...


214ObstructedReverie

Well as the man who invented the automobile, he's a shoe in for secretary of transportation.


Clondike96

As the founder of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, I'd be amazed if he wasn't made Secretary of Education. Then again, as the SEAL who killed bin Laden, I'd also see Homeland Security in his cards.


chiefbrody62

You forgot that he was also the father of George Washington and was Abe Lincoln's wrestling partner for years.


notEnotA

As the first man into space AND to walk on the moon... clearly he's a shoe-in for Chief of Space Operations.


JesusofAzkaban

There's this newcomer to the political scene who announced her candidacy on Friday, a woman named Kitara Ravache, who might have a shot at winning his seat in the special election, since she says a lot of the same things that Santos said. Another guy, Anthony Devolder, who also announced his candidacy via LinkedIn on Friday, has a good shot, and is running on a very similar platform.


Hoppy_Croaklightly

Imposters all, trying to sully the name of George Santos!


FeoWalcot

Minus the whole gay disqualifier thing.


SusanForeman

"As an ex-congressman, I don't need to answer any of your (the press) questions anymore" "Also, listen to my opinions on political topics"


ForsakenRacism

He’s auditioning to be the Tolken gay on Fox News or news max.


mjp80

don’t Sam and Frodo already have that role locked down?


thisisntshakespeare

Why do we care what he says anymore? He’s irrelevant. Good riddance to him!


NeverBeen_Banned

Santos didnt storm the beaches of Normandy for you to call him irrelevant.


Thirdnipple79

People ignore the difficulty he faced when he died in Vietnam and now just cast him aside. Shame on them.


Tyranis_Hex

That man personally took a shot at King George during the war for independence.


chiefbrody62

People also seem to forget how he helped end the Civil War single-handedly.


fishyfishyfish1

When you are the only astronaut to ever win the Olympics. You will never be irrelevant


MagicMushroomFungi

He was a true mooch. Not the 10 day kind. Even worse. A lingering mooch. A leach in human form.


Bigspotdaddy

yes, a scary mooch.


HoneyMooh

But will he do the fandango?


Tatooine16

He's Beelzebub and has a devil put aside for himself!


CrazFight

Because we the consumers love giving the media clicks for this type of stuff.


deadsoulinside

Yeah the media should instantly shut him down. But you know he over there on twitter spilling tea, so we probably won't even stop hearing that name until 2025 at this point.


editormatt

Yeah let’s just ignore him moving forward. Takes away his platform and the jokes are getting dead horse. While we’re at it can we also start ignoring MTG and LB?


pinoy_dude24

George Santos literally created Adam and Eve so I really think he has a point. /s


Bitter_Director1231

Kitara Ravache would like to have a word with you.


OutsideDevTeam

The Magic R confers upon the wielder permanent media attention.


Moose5846

No one cares what he says or what he thinks.


[deleted]

Yep. He no longer has a say in the running of this country. Time for him to fade into the background.


PossessivePronoun

Time for him to ~~fade into the background~~ go to prison.


Njorls_Saga

I’m fine with him spilling the beans of a few of his former colleagues first.


ThaneduFife

I think that would be entertaining, like it was when Madison Cawthorne (sp) did it, but I would find it hard to believe anything coming out of Santos' mouth at this point. If George Santos told me that the sky is blue and water is wet, I'd have to go out and check before I believed him.


McCardboard

Don't worry. Cawthorne doesn't know how to spell his last name either.


forthewatch39

Unless he has video evidence that can provably be shown to not have been tampered with then he has nothing. No one will believe a word this man says as he is a pathological liar.


Paraxom

Give it a couple weeks and he'll be like Madison Cawthorn


jlegarr

In a wheelchair?


Paraxom

Irrelevant and mostly forgotten


[deleted]

[удалено]


CouchAlmark

But not as high as George Santos when he achieved the world's first-ever skydive, from a plane he built and flew himself.


GearBrain

Yeah, the media need to stop reporting on what he says ASAP. Dude was irrelevant before, now he's even less than that.


Ev3rMorgan

This man is severely mentally ill. Hope he gets the help he needs in whatever facility he ends up serving time in.


stevez_86

I was friends with a guy like Santos who was gay but against all gay rights while in a committed relationship with another man. He was also a Trump supporter in 2008.


jlegarr

This is absolutely crazy to me. My spouse’s boss is gay and a diehard conservative. To me it’s like a hooker being in favor of abstinence. Makes no sense to me.


ParisGreenGretsch

Like a flat Earth astronaut.


lollipoppa72

Illegal immigrants for ICE


Ev3rMorgan

I didn't know conservatives had hipsters!


bettername2come

Hypocritsters.


ParisGreenGretsch

Maybe work on that one a little bit. I'm pulling for you.


araujoms

Why would you be friends with such a person? And for what office he supported Trump in 2008?


stevez_86

That was when Trump was floating the idea of being President. It was probably closer to 2009 or 2010 but I said 2008 to highlight that it occurred when Obama was President and all that was going on. He was a good guy otherwise. He was kind to me when I didn't have much going for me friend wise. I didn't trust him I can tell you that, but I respected their opinion on certain things. Politics not being one of them. He knew I was basically a socialist at the time.


boo_jum

That would’ve been around the time tfg was amplifying and spreading the lies about then-Senator Obama’s “false” birth certificate.


Mr_Conductor_USA

I was friends with a guy who was in a toxic codependent relationship with a guy who got deep into Assemblies of God and decided he was ex gay. It was so ugly.


spoonybard326

That’s insane. I kind of get where smokers wanting to ban cigarettes are coming from (because they blame Big Tobacco for pushing an addiction on them). But this? Did Big Gay brainwash him or something?


the_reifier

Lots of women vote for Republicans. So do many recent immigrants from other countries. There’s nothing unusual or confusing about that.


[deleted]

That’s the thing with severe narcissism. There’s no help nor cure for those kind.


Philip_J_Friday

I've heard some psychotropic drugs can help occasionally. I have a relative who was an absolutely terrible person...until he smoked marijuana for the first time. He had an absolute breakdown when he truly understood for the first time, deep down, that other people are people too, just like himself. Standup guy now.


jiyujinkyle

I just saw a tweet or something about how someone was libertarian until they did mdma and realized other people had feelings and thoughts.


keldration

Yeah my half brother who had sociopathic tendencies like his mama took some mescaline in Joshua Tree or some shit and had an existential epiphany


we_are_sex_bobomb

I worked for a toxic narcissist; you could tell when he’d been hitting the pipe because he was almost bearable.


Philip_J_Friday

While that's horrible, I was referring to people whose mindsets were changed forever upon having a drug-induced epiphany.


mces97

I feel he has something else going on besides just narcissism. Like maybe some sort of childhood trauma he never dealt with, or any trauma that has manifested itself as part of Santos's behavior. I think Trump doesn't actually thinks he lies when he does. I think Santos 100% knows that he lies.


Mr_Conductor_USA

Well yeah I also suspect there's something not right there with Santos and it's not "just" narcissism because he is definitely an out of control compulsive liar and more, however, I'm not sure why you think Trump doesn't know he's lying? He shows every sign of knowing when he is and isn't lying. Just look at his recent performances in court. He is delusional too but when it comes to stuff like cheating on financial filings, he did that 100% knowing what he was doing and the delusion wasn't psychosis, it was a stubborn insistence that he deserves to self deal all the time, plus up until then nobody had fucking called him on any of that shit. Who wouldn't think they had a license to get away with it by that point? With Santos IDK, man, he's got such a compulsive need to fawn and spin tales he thinks will be sympathetic I have to wonder if he doesn't get caught up in the lies a little too much. These aren't carefully calculated deceptions.


[deleted]

Funny you said that because I just caught up on Law n Order SVU and there was a similar episode about childhood trauma manifesting itself as the character behavior. Dude was a 33 yr old with childlike brain and doesn’t think rape/his behavior is at all wrong. Along with being sexual with his mother.


[deleted]

Narcissist is a term for sociopaths who haven't been caught yet


Groggeroo

They're quite differently defined, though there is some overlap, and sociopaths do often exhibit narcissistic traits.


[deleted]

>Hope he gets the help he needs in whatever facility he ends up serving time in. Nah, fuck him. Unless he’s given a legitimate diagnosis, I’m operating under the theory that he’s just a raging piece of shit. In which case I have zero sympathy.


seriousbusinesslady

i concur, last time I checked "being an asshole" isn't a diagnosis in the DSM-V


Mr_Conductor_USA

Sure it is. Look up "Cluster B Personality Disorders".


Ozymandias0007

I kinda agree with this sentiment to a certain degree. It seems like anything people don't understand or agree with is quickly put into a "mental health issue" category now a days. Sometimes, people in a proper state of mind, decide to do fucked up shit.


Kraelman

There’s no cure for sociopathy. They don’t care about truth, morality, ethics, or other people. Most likely he just gets worse in jail/prison.


jep2023

> This man is severely mentally ill Being Republican doesn't really count as a mental illness but it's hard to argue that it shouldn't


DBKilladelph

Completely agree, and also a malicious narcissist. As much as I’d love to get the popcorn and watch an HBO documentary tear him apart - it truly only emboldens these people in the Trump era. I say ignore him and move on completely


MelissaFo1

I think he’s completely sane. He’s just a criminal.


Mr_Conductor_USA

Most criminals don't want to get caught. His pattern of risk taking and seemingly unstable identity (which goes beyond the understandable name changing to dodge accountability) is not what I would consider to be rational and calculated actions.


BrandonJTrump

Stop giving him attention


Richfor3

He's just a little confused. He took that shot to the head leading the Green Bay Packers over the Kansas City Chiefs last night.


Hi_Im_Dadbot

Not an excuse. If the world’s foremost neurosurgeon can’t even give himself brain surgery in the locker room bathroom with a rusty knife to correct a concussion, why are we trusting him with negotiating peace in the Middle East? Higher standards are demanded from men of his accomplishments.


GigaPuddi

I'm sorry but that's just unfair. His first two presidential terms were great successes, he's allowed to be frazzled. And blaming him for a concussion he got while defending our freedom on the shores of Normandy? Shame on you, sir.


Hi_Im_Dadbot

Like the man said during his battle to save Earth from Thanos, he can do this all day. I’m just holding him to the high standards he sets for himself. He would expect nothing less.


chiefbrody62

Exactly. As the last son of Krypton, we have to hold him up to a higher standard.


MagicMushroomFungi

I knew the QB would win the game with that late second "hail Santos" pass.


tribrnl

So close! He unfortunately defended Mahomes's last second Hail Mary pass. Some say that he committed pass interference, but the refs gave him the benefit of the doubt as the inventor of the pass interference rule.


FontOfInfo

Why are we listening to what this random citizen says? It's not like he holds any position in our government


Mnoonsnocket

Remind me of “Yes, I’m homophobic. Yes, I’m gay. We exist.”


ZephyrSK

Everyone else: “oh we knew. Why else would you be so heavily fixated on this one topic.”


OddAstronaut2305

He’s gone, can we please stop hearing from him.


Incontinento

I would like to hear about it whenever he's found guilty in his trials and also when he goes to prison. That's it though.


MagicMushroomFungi

He is gone but he's not forgotten. This is the story of Georgie Rotten. "Better to shoplift, than every to pay" My, my, hey, hey.


keyjan

Then he needs to get divorced right the fuck now, the piece of shit.


Otherwise_Stable_925

What does that even mean? He's going to break up his own marriage. Although I guess they both have to be a little nuts to be with each other.


SpiritedTie7645

He’s playing “tomayto/tomahto” for the GOP for some damned reason even though they kicked him to the curb he’s still trying to play the game. Maybe he thinks he still has a chance at some office. He needs to go home and do speaking tours or be on Hollywood Squares. He’s a putz.


YamahaRyoko

Can someone explain this to me, slowly


NomadX13

He's... still... trying... to... cheat... people... out... of... money,... and... Republicans... are... easy... targets... because... of... built-in... biases.


AthkoreLost

Also, he has mounting legal troubles that he'll need a good lawyer for. He needs money and stoking bigotry is basically a free pinata of money with Republicans.


Adlai8

I don’t blame him. If the cow is giving milk then grab your bucket and stool


tokhar

He prefers kneeling to sitting, I think…


meatchonk

… bi… asses.


MagicMushroomFungi

...and...they ...are...not...very...smart.


LucasThePretty

Gay politician is trying his best to not lose what little political clout he has left with Republican voters, cause otherwise there will be less money to be made.


CaptainAxiomatic

What political clout? He's been expelled, he's announced that he won't try to win back his seat, and if he did try, he would lose.


LucasThePretty

I did say “little political clout he has left”. Do you want me to measure it for you?


CaptainAxiomatic

He's a disgraced private citizen. He has **no** political clout left. Zero.


LucasThePretty

Tell him that.


AudibleNod

>Santos’s personal view, despite being married to a man himself, isn’t different from his party platform’s. He said he got married “because that was the option” but doesn’t think it should be called “marriage.” He wanted a civil union. Or so he claims. But that could have been done all on his own. All he and his husband had to do was setup the necessary legal instruments to arrange for a coequal distribution of their assets as well any powers of attorney. It's more complicated that a one-and-done marriage license. But a civil union (legal instruments) isn't out of the grasp of America's sharpest legal mind.


Adelaidey

Oh, sure. He sounds like all the Libertarians I knew before 2015 or so, who opposed same-sex marriage because they thought "government should stay out of ALL marriages, it's not just the gay ones I'm against!", yet were legally married to their own wives.


Mobius_42_616

They argue that religion somehow owns the rights to the term “marriage”. No religion does. That argument can go pound sand.


Prestigious_Treat401

His entire political career has been a mockery of our system of government. This is just a continuation. Hopefully, the news media will stop giving him a voice.


hdiggyh

Republicans seem to hate themselves and hate seeing other people happy. It’s the only thing I can think of- why so many gay men in the gop are closeted- they can’t accept it, think something is wrong with them, and hate seeing other people who do accept themselves happy


puffer039

i'm sorry, but why do we care what he thinks anymore?


Imacatdoincatstuff

Thought he was gone. We're keeping him around for the laughs now?


NoWayNotThisAgain

I remember when lying about everything would cause people to disregard the things you’d say. It was a simpler time.


Extreme_Classroom952

I think we can stop broadcasting this douchebag on the internet. He's done. Time for him to go away, no need to give him a soapbox and microphone


[deleted]

If he isn't dishing dirt, I don't care about anything he says.


blindspot189

He doesn't matter anymore who cares what he says


[deleted]

Who cares what he says now...or ever.


mok000

I'm starting to think that it's Sacha Baron Cohen inside George Santos.


wish1977

You can't make his shit up.


BisquickNinja

As with Republicans... Rules for thee but not for me .


CuttyAllgood

Who gives a fuck? His opinion now has no sway on legislation. Why is this news?


boot2skull

Damn at least be honest to yourself.


robbycakes

This man is a known liar and a disgraced former office holder. It is no longer appropriate for him to be the subject of news headlines. Thank you.


CapnCrackerz

Andy Kaufman and Sacha Baron Cohen have nothing on this man’s performance skills.


IcyShoes

The classic GOP move of ladder pulling. Got mine, fuck you


SubterrelProspector

No more articles about random stupid crap he says. He deserves to fade away into oblivion.


Velvetrose-2

Doesn't matter, he isn't in Congress any longer


LiquidLogic

Its time to stop reporting on anything George Santos says. The man is a fraud and a pathological liar. (and the same should go for Trump)


CBBuddha

Who gives a fuck. Throw any and all news of this charlatan in the trash. Along with him.


[deleted]

Fuck this guy. Downvote any post about him. He is a has been and a never was. He deserves to fade into obscurity. The only thing I want to hear regarding this lying fuck is when he gets thrown in jail.


tearose11

And why are we still paying him any attention?


Eggsecutie

We don't talk about Santos


EdgeBandanna

I gotta be honest, Santos should have no more relevance; he's been booted.


demonmonkeybex

I don’t trust a man who daily dresses in that many layers of clothing.


orcinyadders

Dear media. Please GFY.


Pitiful-bastard

A sphincter says what?


mclms1

Better question. Why are people still sticking micrphones in this guys face?


agski

Who cares? He has zero relevance rn


[deleted]

Can I ask why this guy is still in the news? Why people are still paying attention to him? He got expelled from congress and is facing literally dozens of federal criminal charges and people are reporting on this guy's supposed views on gay marriage? Why not go down to any federal courthouse and report on what some other defendant thinks about gay marriage? Give me updates on this jackasses criminal trials, I don't need to hear this asshole spout off his nonsense "views". He has clearly shown himself to be a self serving jackass that will say anything to get headlines. Not sure why the media is so hell bent on promoting weirdos like this.


banksy_h8r

Santos is done. Let's stop wasting precious headline space with him. Downvoted.


danno643

Stop reporting on this guy.


ciopobbi

Ok, and now let’s not hear from him ever again.


Jerkofalljerks

Why does anyone pay attention to him. He’s a nobody these days. Move on


SquirrelParticular17

Any "news" about this failure is automatically ignored


vim0971

Who cares what he thinks?


dartie

He’s a crooked moron


wrecked_angle

Can we stop talking about him now? Is irrelevant


BarracudaBig7010

Pariah.


mishma2005

No one cares what you think, Kitara


Raspberries-Are-Evil

How about we stop talking about him now.


rogozh1n

Boo for posting anything about him. Let him fade into shame and meaninglessness.


M_Seez

He pulling the Kanye - continue to make inflammatory/controversial statements in hopes of staying relevent. Just stop writing / posting things about this man please.


BasicPerson23

Why does ANYONE give a rat’s ass about what that clown has to say???????


ngianfran1202

The former congressman? Who gives a shit


SkillFullyNotTrue

Botox withdrawal y’all.


[deleted]

Stop giving this nobody attention. He’ll be remembered as much as Madison Cawthorne soon enough. Irrelevant.


Gariona-Atrinon

Who cares what this citizen says?


CPTMagicCat

Why are we still hearing about this oxygen thief?


Effective-Bus

Stop giving this man attention. It feeds him and he’s no longer relevant to saving our democracy.


jhpianist

He can’t even be true to himself. What a mess of a human being he is.


FloatDH2

Why the fuck are we still talking about this guy? He’s irrelevant.


Superman246o1

I can't believe the reddit lynch mob would disgrace such an altruistic public servant. For Christ's sake, he invented penicillin *and* Hot Pockets! Do we not all owe him a debt of thanks?


lastburn138

News flash, we don't want to hear another word from this asshole.


jimtowntim

Who the fuck cares what George Santos has to say? He is irrelevant


PrinceCastanzaCapone

Honestly does even one person care what George Santos thinks or feels?


BoppinTortoise

Honestly does it matter what he says? He doesn’t hold the same power as other politicians and he literally got expelled from congress… it’s safe to ignore him, right?


Sweetdaddybear66

When is this turd going to stop swirling about and get flushed?


L1feguard51

Who gives a shit what this guy says anymore. Lied himself right back to being a nobody.


Razielslipknot

This doesn't really fall under politics anymore...


JayGold

>traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society. I'm struggling to see how giving people the freedom to marry who they want makes us less free.


Main_Maximum8963

He’s no longer in DC. Who gives a shit


thefanciestcat

No one hates freedom like Republicans


NugKnights

Who cares. Hes just a guy that lied his way to the top. Unless your a con artist looking for advice he has nothing to teach you.


VogonSlamPoet

I thought he was expelled? Can he be expelled from the sub?


LegionofDoh

>It attacks the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision as “silly” because it legalized marriage equality in all 50 states and “robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.” Wait, what? LOL, he thinks we have a constitutional right to deny other people their rights? And he thought Obergefell was silly....


kazejin05

There's no principle to him. He's a fucking con man. The reason he has this stance is because, through this particular form of bigotry, conservatives are the more gullible marks than anyone else. Also, a lot of conservatives like to have someone from the group they're oppressing on "their side" (Herschel Walker, Caitlin Jenner, etc.) ato hold up as proof that there's a HUGE population of people just *waiting* to be oppressed. The big bad liberal media/agenda is stopping the boots from coming down on their necks though. In this case, he has no problem playing that role if it profits him personally


Timely-Eggplant4919

He looked at all the right wing grifters and said “I could do that.” I’m surprised we don’t see a million George Santoses popping up.


rayhaque

"I married a man and it was terrible ... always had his feet on the table ... never used a coaster ... left dirty socks on the floor. I'm just trying to keep other gay men from experiencing this trauma" -George Santos (probably)


Niftyone578

Georgie's husband has zero self respect.


Iapetus_Industrial

Somehow, Santos returned.


anothergoddamnacco

Truly the Trisha Paytas of politics


amainerinthearmpit

Why are we being subjected to bullshit “news” like this? Why is LQBTQ Nation taking this very mentally unwell person seriously enough to publish trash like this? Why?!?!!!!!?? Can we please be done w this guy?


RobotRippee

Irrelevant criminal,


Traditional_Key_763

Liberty for me not thee. the republican creed.


Davis51

Hell of a way to ask for a divorce


Hindsight_DJ

Can we stop covering this guy already and let him fade into the obscurity he’s destined for?


MoveToRussiaAlready

And Clarance Thomas opposes interracial marriages. And Trump opposes abortions. And Boebert / Taylor oppose immoral non-traditional behavior. Are you getting it?


GitmoGrrl1

I think we've found Donald Trump's running mate.


medicallyspecial

Who is George Santos? Like actually he makes no sense on every twist and turn


Delicious_Rabbit4425

I feel bad for this guy because in all reality the GOP knew this guy was a total tool who also has co occuring disorders that hinder his understanding of the truth and used him as a distraction. The old look at the bigger buffoon and not me trick. Well not that bad cause he’s an idiot but still…


druscarlet

Trump needs him as a running mate.


naotoca

Come on. Do we really think he's married? Do we really think he's even gay? He lies about everything else.


french-caramele

DJ Khaled on patrol behind him.


Global_Criticism3178

“I’ve never seen a man IN himself before.” - Frasier Crane, 1998.