30 thoughts on “George: I cannot tell (anything but) a lie.”
a parody courtesy of colbertās Late Night Show last week
Like I said yesterday, this guy canāt introduce himself as George Santos, and anyone be certain that he had āt already told a lie.Ā
glad Iām not an airline passenger today.
NEW: Nassau County GOP will make a major announcement Wednesday regarding the ādisgracedā George Santos. Hearing if this is a call for him to resign theyāll back newly-elected NY State Sen. Jack Martins as the Republican nominee for NY-3.
āItās a Sin to Tell a Lieā is a 1936 popular song by Billy Mayhew. Originally introduced by Fats Waller on the 78 rpm record Victor 20-1595, it was revived in 1955 by Somethinā Smith and the Redheads, reaching #7 on the Billboard charts in that year. It was later a Top 40 Country hit for Slim Whitman, reaching #21 on the Top Country Singles chart in 1971. From the album of the same name. John Denver tells a story about the song and does a cover in his 1978 album, Live at the Sydney Opera House Other artists who have recorded versions include Billie Holiday, The Ink Spots, Tony Bennett, Bobbi Martin, Gerry Monroe, Brent Spiner, Lenny Breau, Buddy Greco, Steve Goodman, The Quebe Sisters Band, Ann Breen, Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats, Bobby Vinton, Patti Page, Vera Lynn, and George Maharis.
technically speaking, the ninth commandment āthou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighborā doesnāt say anything about lying about oneself.
BTW, apologies to those earlier (than 7:30 am) for posting my new thread comments on last thread (since removed).Ā
Santos bearing false wit-less. Ā
But he’s really good at making that white power hand signal.
smells like a form of, if not outright, bribery but by another name – cost of doing business. politics as usual or standard operating procedure?
twee by politico’s olivia beavers
At least two Republicans among McCarthy’s 20 holdouts got direct threats from GOP donor Thomas Peterffy last week, per GOP sources I spoke with. Here is a screenshot shared with me…
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Santos response again courtesy of Fats Waller
Since taking control of the House, Republicans have failed to act on the George Santos scandal and have pushed for cuts to crucial programs like Social Security. Democratic strategist James Carville weighs in on the power shift on Capitol Hill and how Democrats can capitalize on it.
MSNBC is snapping to the real story on the classified document situation. Ā At least on the morning show. Havent heard CNN since, maybe, the Dead Sea was only sick. Blitzer? Anderson? Who dem fellah?
BB – Why did the FAA system go down? Ā Any intel re: if it was a cyberattack?
Is a REAL journalist doing the work to find out who George Santos is IRL? Birth certificate? DNA swab? Finding? Russian or Chinese plant? Wouldnāt it be interesting if he started voting with Dems?
Sturg – Gotta love KO
bId – I just learned of the system crash.Ā Nothing has shown up indicating it was broken into.Ā I suspect the answer comes from years/decades of less than stellar funding and updating.Ā The system that crashed is the Notice to Airmen, usually seen as NOTAMS, which provides up to the second notices of issues concerning flying.Ā I was going to give an example, but –
I cannot get into the system right now.Ā I use it when I am flying my drone to avoid flying into problems.Ā I hope it is not down again.
The system was down for about and hour and a half but it may take all day to get flights back to normal.Ā So far no indication of cyber attack just a snafu thans to needing updating.Ā Buttigieg delivering reports as more is known.Ā
āThe stateās messy redistricting process also contributed to Santosā ability to evade serious scrutiny.ā
āPeople were not knocking down the door to run,ā given Suozziās strength, Cairo said. Two years later, a late court order to redraw gerrymandered district lines limited the county partyās options, he added.ā
āCairo, in describing the depth of the deception, claimed that Santos once ātold me he was a star on the Baruch (College) volleyball team.ā (Santos never attended the school.)ā
āGeorge Santos has lied to voters about a lot of things, but while lying about your background might not be illegal, deceiving voters about your campaignās funding and spending is a serious violation of federal law,ā Adav Noti, the Campaign Legal Centerās senior vice president, said in a statement.ā
āIn Santosā previous, failed bid for Congress, in 2020, his personal financial disclosure form listed no assets and a salary of $55,000, according to the Campaign Legal Center complaint.ā
āTwo years later, Santos reported a $750,000 salary from the Devolder Organization, which he said had earned between $1,000,001 and $5 million in income the previous year. He also reported owning an apartment in Rio De Janeiro, a checking account valued at between $100,001 and $250,000, and a savings account worth between $1,000,001 and $5 million.ā
āIn an interview last month with Semafor, Santos described Devolder as carrying out ādeal buildingā and āspecialty consultingā for āhigh net worth individualsā and said he had ālanded a couple of million-dollar contractsā within the first six months of starting the firm.ā
āHis financial disclosure form did not list any Devolder clients, and the Campaign Legal Center complaint notes that Santos previously offered a different description of the company on his campaign website, calling it āhis familyās firmā and describing himself as overseeing $80 million in assets under management.ā
well, what if the guy that thought that conspiracy theory up also thought it might be a good way to get back at joe and at the same time help muddy up a certain investigation going on about him?Ā Ā not that he planted the box in question at the vacant penn inst. office, but perhaps one of the cult faithful took the hint and did it for him.
seems strange no one seems to know/explain why they were there or how the box of docs got there in the closet of an otherwise emptied office in the first place.Ā Ā it would make sense that blinken and others who worked there with joe (and now at SOS) might acknowledge stuff of that sort being around for research purposes at the time.Ā have they even been asked?
āEspecially striking to legal experts is that more than half a dozen of those expenses, marked āFood and Beverageā in the filing, came in at exactly $199.99āone penny short of the threshold that would have required the campaign to retain receipts of the transaction.ā
“You canāt structure transfers of money in a way to intentionally get around the law,ā said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. āIf someone was trying to structure and kind of lazy about itā¦ this is kind of what it would look like.ā
āOfficials brought the yacht to Haulover Inlet, where Customs and Border Patrol agents gained entry and discovered 14 undocumented Chinese migrants and a Bahamian national aboardāplus more than $200,000 in currency stuffed into the bedroom walls.ā
And weāre those Chinese migrants women who were to be trafficked for sex?
Oh, patD – Good catch. Juicy story. You canāt make up stuff like this.
āThe feds charged Oppedisano not just with smuggling undocumented immigrants into the country, but with illegally seeking to re-enter himself, though he pleaded only to the first allegation as part of the deal.ā
āIn a phone interview, Joseph Oppedisano acknowledged that he owned both that property and the apartment where investigators had found pills, cocaine, and more ammunition. He also conceded that he had introduced Rocco Oppedisano to Santos, but insisted he could not recall whether he had encouraged his brother to make the $500 contribution to the candidateās campaignāeven though FEC records show he and yet another of his brothers had donated the exact same date, only days after the establishment of the āSmall Businesses for Santos Coalition.ā
āPolitical committees connected to Santos have poured thousands of additional dollars into Il Bacco. New York State campaign finance records show that Rise NY PACāa fund run by Santosā campaign treasurer and his sisterāspent $4,473.07 there on meals and fundraising expenses. The restaurant got another $2,405.31 from the account of a failed state senate candidate who retained Redstone Strategies, a firm that counts Santosā Devolder Organization among its two co-founders.ā
It sounds like Santos is mobbed up.
NOTAM – this is covering Washington D.C. Basically it tells where you can fly and not fly.Ā I live right on the edge of this restriction, the red circle, so I need to read this NOTAM anytime I want to fly my drone, there are occasional shutdowns, such as the president or vice-president flying into the Naval Academy.
Not Good!
Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location
Agreed, it sounds like planted docs, but why were Bidenās aides looking for docs? Were they looking because they wanted to find any possible planted docs to turn over before the Feds went in and found any planted docs?
āThe GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that would require health care providers to try to preserve the life of an infant in the rare case that a baby is born alive during or after an attempted abortion.ā
Then, if kept alive, no medical insurance nor food assistance nor housing nor a living wage will be provided during the rest of its lifetime per the Republican Party.
Pay no attention to George Santos nor any of the crazy crackers in Congress.
Current law actually protects infants born alive in the third trimester however that occurs since this is very premature or only 1% of abortions and usually to preserve the life of the mother.Ā Ā
My great grandson was born at 22 weeks and spent months in the hospital. Torin is fine now, but it was quite a fight. He’s almost three now but only recently had his throat insert removed and is just now learning to speak.
For those who are thinking “hope we don’t have another civil war”–too lare. We’re having one. Ā
Sad day for guitar aficionados – Jeff Beck passed away yesterday of bacterial meningitis.
Fuck, just fuck.
Itās the lack of continued care they donāt address, because Republicans donāt actually care.
So many miscommunications today. Ā Damned Mercury retrograde.Ā
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a parody courtesy of colbertās Late Night Show last week
Like I said yesterday, this guy canāt introduce himself as George Santos, and anyone be certain that he had āt already told a lie.Ā
glad Iām not an airline passenger today.
George Santosā Local GOP Teases āMajor Announcementā About āDisgracedā Congressman | HuffPost Latest News
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and a tweet about same:
āItās a Sin to Tell a Lieā is a 1936 popular song by Billy Mayhew. Originally introduced by Fats Waller on the 78 rpm record Victor 20-1595, it was revived in 1955 by Somethinā Smith and the Redheads, reaching #7 on the Billboard charts in that year. It was later a Top 40 Country hit for Slim Whitman, reaching #21 on the Top Country Singles chart in 1971. From the album of the same name. John Denver tells a story about the song and does a cover in his 1978 album, Live at the Sydney Opera House Other artists who have recorded versions include Billie Holiday, The Ink Spots, Tony Bennett, Bobbi Martin, Gerry Monroe, Brent Spiner, Lenny Breau, Buddy Greco, Steve Goodman, The Quebe Sisters Band, Ann Breen, Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats, Bobby Vinton, Patti Page, Vera Lynn, and George Maharis.
technically speaking, the ninth commandment āthou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighborā doesnāt say anything about lying about oneself.
BTW, apologies to those earlier (than 7:30 am) for posting my new thread comments on last thread (since removed).Ā
Santos bearing false wit-less. Ā
But he’s really good at making that white power hand signal.
smells like a form of, if not outright, bribery but by another name – cost of doing business. politics as usual or standard operating procedure?
twee by politico’s olivia beavers
Santos response again courtesy of Fats Waller
Since taking control of the House, Republicans have failed to act on the George Santos scandal and have pushed for cuts to crucial programs like Social Security. Democratic strategist James Carville weighs in on the power shift on Capitol Hill and how Democrats can capitalize on it.
“CNN doubles down on becoming a fascist whorehouse. “.Ā Ā Ā
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
MSNBC is snapping to the real story on the classified document situation. Ā At least on the morning show. Havent heard CNN since, maybe, the Dead Sea was only sick. Blitzer? Anderson? Who dem fellah?
BB – Why did the FAA system go down? Ā Any intel re: if it was a cyberattack?
Is a REAL journalist doing the work to find out who George Santos is IRL? Birth certificate? DNA swab? Finding? Russian or Chinese plant? Wouldnāt it be interesting if he started voting with Dems?
Sturg – Gotta love KO
bId – I just learned of the system crash.Ā Nothing has shown up indicating it was broken into.Ā I suspect the answer comes from years/decades of less than stellar funding and updating.Ā The system that crashed is the Notice to Airmen, usually seen as NOTAMS, which provides up to the second notices of issues concerning flying.Ā I was going to give an example, but –
I cannot get into the system right now.Ā I use it when I am flying my drone to avoid flying into problems.Ā I hope it is not down again.
The system was down for about and hour and a half but it may take all day to get flights back to normal.Ā So far no indication of cyber attack just a snafu thans to needing updating.Ā Buttigieg delivering reports as more is known.Ā
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/george-santos-nassau-county-resign/index.html
āThe stateās messy redistricting process also contributed to Santosā ability to evade serious scrutiny.ā
āPeople were not knocking down the door to run,ā given Suozziās strength, Cairo said. Two years later, a late court order to redraw gerrymandered district lines limited the county partyās options, he added.ā
āCairo, in describing the depth of the deception, claimed that Santos once ātold me he was a star on the Baruch (College) volleyball team.ā (Santos never attended the school.)ā
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/george-santos-fec-campaign-complaint/index.html
āGeorge Santos has lied to voters about a lot of things, but while lying about your background might not be illegal, deceiving voters about your campaignās funding and spending is a serious violation of federal law,ā Adav Noti, the Campaign Legal Centerās senior vice president, said in a statement.ā
āIn Santosā previous, failed bid for Congress, in 2020, his personal financial disclosure form listed no assets and a salary of $55,000, according to the Campaign Legal Center complaint.ā
āTwo years later, Santos reported a $750,000 salary from the Devolder Organization, which he said had earned between $1,000,001 and $5 million in income the previous year. He also reported owning an apartment in Rio De Janeiro, a checking account valued at between $100,001 and $250,000, and a savings account worth between $1,000,001 and $5 million.ā
āIn an interview last month with Semafor, Santos described Devolder as carrying out ādeal buildingā and āspecialty consultingā for āhigh net worth individualsā and said he had ālanded a couple of million-dollar contractsā within the first six months of starting the firm.ā
āHis financial disclosure form did not list any Devolder clients, and the Campaign Legal Center complaint notes that Santos previously offered a different description of the company on his campaign website, calling it āhis familyās firmā and describing himself as overseeing $80 million in assets under management.ā
Russian money? Chinese? Who?
remember this story last summer:
Trump Launches Conspiracy Theory That FBI Was ‘Planting’ Evidence At Mar-a-Lago | HuffPost Latest News
well, what if the guy that thought that conspiracy theory up also thought it might be a good way to get back at joe and at the same time help muddy up a certain investigation going on about him?Ā Ā not that he planted the box in question at the vacant penn inst. office, but perhaps one of the cult faithful took the hint and did it for him.
seems strange no one seems to know/explain why they were there or how the box of docs got there in the closet of an otherwise emptied office in the first place.Ā Ā it would make sense that blinken and others who worked there with joe (and now at SOS) might acknowledge stuff of that sort being around for research purposes at the time.Ā have they even been asked?
BiD, here’s another bit of news about georgie boy
Revealed: George Santos got shady campaign cash from Italian busted for smuggling undocumented migrants (msn.com)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-took-donation-from-migrant-smuggler-rocco-oppedisano
āEspecially striking to legal experts is that more than half a dozen of those expenses, marked āFood and Beverageā in the filing, came in at exactly $199.99āone penny short of the threshold that would have required the campaign to retain receipts of the transaction.ā
“You canāt structure transfers of money in a way to intentionally get around the law,ā said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. āIf someone was trying to structure and kind of lazy about itā¦ this is kind of what it would look like.ā
āOfficials brought the yacht to Haulover Inlet, where Customs and Border Patrol agents gained entry and discovered 14 undocumented Chinese migrants and a Bahamian national aboardāplus more than $200,000 in currency stuffed into the bedroom walls.ā
And weāre those Chinese migrants women who were to be trafficked for sex?
Oh, patD – Good catch. Juicy story. You canāt make up stuff like this.
āThe feds charged Oppedisano not just with smuggling undocumented immigrants into the country, but with illegally seeking to re-enter himself, though he pleaded only to the first allegation as part of the deal.ā
āIn a phone interview, Joseph Oppedisano acknowledged that he owned both that property and the apartment where investigators had found pills, cocaine, and more ammunition. He also conceded that he had introduced Rocco Oppedisano to Santos, but insisted he could not recall whether he had encouraged his brother to make the $500 contribution to the candidateās campaignāeven though FEC records show he and yet another of his brothers had donated the exact same date, only days after the establishment of the āSmall Businesses for Santos Coalition.ā
āPolitical committees connected to Santos have poured thousands of additional dollars into Il Bacco. New York State campaign finance records show that Rise NY PACāa fund run by Santosā campaign treasurer and his sisterāspent $4,473.07 there on meals and fundraising expenses. The restaurant got another $2,405.31 from the account of a failed state senate candidate who retained Redstone Strategies, a firm that counts Santosā Devolder Organization among its two co-founders.ā
It sounds like Santos is mobbed up.
NOTAM – this is covering Washington D.C. Basically it tells where you can fly and not fly.Ā I live right on the edge of this restriction, the red circle, so I need to read this NOTAM anytime I want to fly my drone, there are occasional shutdowns, such as the president or vice-president flying into the Naval Academy.
Not Good!
Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-aides-find-second-batch-classified-documents-new-location-rcna65371
Planted
Too much coincidence.Ā
Agreed, it sounds like planted docs, but why were Bidenās aides looking for docs? Were they looking because they wanted to find any possible planted docs to turn over before the Feds went in and found any planted docs?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/politics/house-abortion-bill/index.html
āThe GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that would require health care providers to try to preserve the life of an infant in the rare case that a baby is born alive during or after an attempted abortion.ā
Then, if kept alive, no medical insurance nor food assistance nor housing nor a living wage will be provided during the rest of its lifetime per the Republican Party.
Pay no attention to George Santos nor any of the crazy crackers in Congress.
Current law actually protects infants born alive in the third trimester however that occurs since this is very premature or only 1% of abortions and usually to preserve the life of the mother.Ā Ā
My great grandson was born at 22 weeks and spent months in the hospital. Torin is fine now, but it was quite a fight. He’s almost three now but only recently had his throat insert removed and is just now learning to speak.
For those who are thinking “hope we don’t have another civil war”–too lare. We’re having one. Ā
Sad day for guitar aficionados – Jeff Beck passed away yesterday of bacterial meningitis.
Fuck, just fuck.
Itās the lack of continued care they donāt address, because Republicans donāt actually care.
So many miscommunications today. Ā Damned Mercury retrograde.Ā
NEW THREAD