- GD_American
- Jul 21, 2004
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I’d like to plant trees on every square inch of Abbott’s lawn
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- lightpole
- Jun 4, 2004
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I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".
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Are we talking about sending people to Kamala in sub zero temps or the hosed up energy market here?
Edit: Theres no way the Dems can punish him for either of these things though so I guess it doesn't matter
lightpole fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 25, 2022
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Dec 25, 2022 23:22
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- Soul Dentist
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Theres no way the Dems can would punish him for either of these things though so I guess it doesn't matter
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Dec 25, 2022 23:28
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- LtCol J. Krusinski
- May 7, 2013
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by Fluffdaddy
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I’d like to plant trees on every square inch of Abbott’s lawn
I’m gonna make a Twitter called @Trees4Abbot and just push out Pro-Tree (which did nothing wrong) and Anti-Abbot (Tree hater) tweets 24/7 until Beto makes me bottom of the ticket in his 2028 failed presidential campaign.
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Dec 26, 2022 00:14
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- kill me now
- Sep 14, 2003
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Why's Hank crying?
'CUZ HE JUST GOT DUNKED ON!
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I’d like to plant trees on every square inch of Abbott’s lawn
Four words
Drone delivered kudzu seeds
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Dec 26, 2022 00:28
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- LtCol J. Krusinski
- May 7, 2013
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by Fluffdaddy
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Four words
Drone delivered kudzu seeds
You don’t want to be the guy trying to fly a drone at the Chief Executive of the State of Texas.
You gotta go after stuff that’s fair game.
For instance, did you know that even though Colin Kapernick is no longer kneeling during the anthem, Greg Abbot hasn’t stood for the anthem in decades?
Abbot hates America, Trees, and Texass.
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Dec 26, 2022 00:39
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- Milo and POTUS
- Sep 3, 2017
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I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
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Conservatives hate trees though
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Dec 26, 2022 01:59
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- Discussion Quorum
- Dec 5, 2002
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Armchair Philistine
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gently caress greg abbot
merry loving christmas
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Dec 26, 2022 02:12
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- Milo and POTUS
- Sep 3, 2017
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I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
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I hope that tree comes back and finishes the job
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Dec 26, 2022 02:57
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- pantslesswithwolves
- Oct 28, 2008
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I’d like to plant trees on every square inch of Abbott’s lawn
Hire contractors to install one single stair in front of every bathroom in Abbot’s house.
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Dec 26, 2022 04:05
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- A.o.D.
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Hitting pilots instead of airframes is still a massive success.
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Dec 26, 2022 14:50
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- The Eyes Have It
- Feb 10, 2008
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Third Eye Sees All
...snookums
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It's a dim photo and I mostly see the sharp outlines on my phone, so I originally thought these were elves with big truck nutz hanging down under each one
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Dec 26, 2022 20:21
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- Milo and POTUS
- Sep 3, 2017
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I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
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it's his signature style
tim pool so dumb even joe rogan fans look down on him
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Dec 26, 2022 21:45
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- Mr. Nice!
- Oct 13, 2005
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bone shaking.
soul baking.
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That republican house elect dude admitted he lied about his education credentials. He also said he’s “jew-ish” not “jewish” and he always intended the former not the latter.
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Dec 27, 2022 02:54
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- maffew buildings
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too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
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It's cool you can like, just totally lie about everything, and nobody will bother checking until after you've won an election to congress
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Dec 27, 2022 04:11
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- Oxygenpoisoning
- Feb 21, 2006
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It's cool you can like, just totally lie about everything, and nobody will bother checking until after you've won an election to congress
You’d think you’d have to fill out actual information on your government forms for running for office. I’d think that would be a pretty easy disqualification, but I guess not. Are we even sure this guy is George Santos?
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Dec 27, 2022 04:47
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- LtCol J. Krusinski
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by Fluffdaddy
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That republican house elect dude admitted he lied about his education credentials. He also said he’s “jew-ish” not “jewish” and he always intended the former not the latter.
The New York Times posted:
Ending a weeklong silence, Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to a sizable list of falsehoods about his professional background, educational history, business experience and property ownership. But he said he was determined to take the oath of office on Jan. 3 and join the House majority.
Mr. Santos, a New York Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the misrepresentations.
“My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Mr. Santos told The New York Post in one of several interviews he gave on Monday.
Mr. Santos admitted to lying about graduating from college and making misleading claims that he worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. He once said he had a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties; on Monday, he admitted he was not a landlord.
Mr. Santos, the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent, also acknowledged owing thousands in unpaid rent and a yearslong marriage he had never disclosed.
“I dated women in the past. I married a woman. It’s personal stuff,” he said to The Post, adding that he was “OK with my sexuality. People change.”
The admissions by Mr. Santos added a new wrinkle to one of the more astonishing examples of an incoming congressman falsifying key biographical elements of his background — with Mr. Santos maintaining the falsehoods through two consecutive bids for Congress, the first of which he lost.
Mr. Santos acknowledged that a string of financial difficulties had left him owing thousands to landlords and creditors. But he failed to explain in the interviews how his fortunes reversed so significantly that, by 2022, he was able to lend $700,000 to his congressional campaign.
Mr. Santos also firmly denied committing a crime anywhere in the world, even though The Times had uncovered Brazilian court records showing that Mr. Santos had been charged with fraud as a young man after he was caught writing checks with a stolen checkbook.
“I am not a criminal here — not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world,” he told The Post. “Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.”
In the court file, Mr. Santos is identified by his full name and date of birth, as well as by the names of his mother and father. The documents show that Mr. Santos confessed to the crime and was charged, but that the case remains unresolved because authorities were later unable to locate him.
In both interviews on Monday, Mr. Santos also denounced reporting by both CNN and The Forward, a Jewish publication, that he may have misled voters about his account of his Jewish ancestry, including that his maternal grandparents were born in Europe and emigrated to Brazil during the Holocaust.
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Mr. Santos told The Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
Mr. Santos, who has repeatedly said he was religiously Catholic but has also identified as a nonobservant Jew, told The Post his grandmother had recounted how she converted from Judaism to Catholicism.
Mr. Santos, through representatives, has declined multiple requests to speak with The Times.
Over the course of his campaigns, Mr. Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010 before working at Citigroup and, eventually, Goldman Sachs. A biography on the National Republican Congressional Committee website said he had attended both Baruch and New York University and received degrees in finance and economics.
But the colleges and companies could not locate records to verify his claims when contacted by The Times.
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Santos admitted to The Post that he had not graduated from Baruch College or any college.
“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my résumé,” he said, later adding: “We do stupid things in life.”
He also admitted that he never worked directly for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, blaming a “poor choice of words” for creating the impression that he had.
Past statements of Mr. Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Mr. Santos’s former campaign website preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine says he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.”
Instead, he told The Post on Monday, he dealt with both firms through his work at another company, LinkBridge Investors, which connects investors with potential clients. LinkBridge, he said, had “limited partnerships” with the two Wall Street firms.
The Times was able to confirm Mr. Santos’s employment at LinkBridge. But in a version of his campaign biography posted as recently as April, Mr. Santos suggested that he had started his career on Wall Street at Citigroup and that he was at Goldman Sachs briefly before his time at LinkBridge.
A spokeswoman for Citigroup declined to comment. Representatives for Goldman Sachs and LinkBridge did not immediately respond to a request for more information.
Mr. Santos has not fully accounted for his employment during the years that he had claimed that he was advancing on Wall Street. In a separate interview with WABC radio, he confirmed reporting by The Times that he had worked at a call center in Queens in late 2011 and early 2012.
Yet even as Mr. Santos, whose victory helped Republicans secure a narrow majority in the next House of Representatives, admitted to some fabrication, his actions will likely not prevent him from being seated in Congress.
Democrats — including the outgoing House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the next House Democratic minority leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York — have suggested Mr. Santos is unfit to serve in Congress. Top House Republican leaders, including Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, have largely remained silent.
The House can only prevent candidates from taking office if they violate the Constitution’s age, citizenship and state residency requirements. Once he has been seated, however, Mr. Santos could face ethics investigations, legal experts have said.
Of greater potential concern are questions about Mr. Santos’s financial disclosures, where he reported earning millions of dollars from his company, the Devolder Organization.
Mr. Santos disclosed little about the operations of his company, and The Times could find no public-facing assets or other property tied to the firm. Mr. Santos also did not list any clients on his disclosures, despite the requirement that candidates list any compensation over $5,000 from a single source.
Intentionally omitting or misrepresenting information on a congressional financial disclosure is considered a federal crime.
The WABC interview itself was something of a political curiosity. Mr. Santos was interviewed by John Catsimatidis, a supermarket magnate and a big Republican donor, and Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who resigned in disgrace in 2011.
Mr. Weiner asked Mr. Santos about his claim, made in an interview last month shortly after his election, that a company he had worked for “lost four employees” at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016. The Times reviewed news coverage and obituaries and found no evidence that could support the claim.
On Monday, Mr. Santos shifted his account slightly, telling Mr. Weiner that those four people were not yet employees but instead were in the process of being hired.
“We did lose four people that were going to be coming to work for the company that I was starting up in Orlando,” he said.
Mr. Santos did not name the company or provide additional information to support his statement. Public records show that Mr. Santos had a Florida driver’s license and was registered to vote in that state in 2016.
Mr. Santos was mostly recently registered to vote at a house in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens, but the house’s owner said he moved out months before the election.
In The Post’s interview, Mr. Santos confirmed The Times’s reporting that he was currently living in Huntington, N.Y, a town just outside his congressional district. (Members of Congress are only required to live in the state they represent, not the district.)
Mr. Santos also admitted that he was not, as he claimed last year on Twitter, a landlord who makes significant income from 13 properties owned by him and his family.
“George Santos does not own any properties,” he told The Post, even though a financial disclosure he filed with the House in September said he owned an apartment in Rio de Janeiro.
“I said I was Jew-ish not Jewish” is loving 
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Dec 27, 2022 05:25
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- Milo and POTUS
- Sep 3, 2017
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I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
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It's a curb your enthusiasm joke if I've ever heard one
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Dec 27, 2022 06:44
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- Jarmak
- Jan 24, 2005
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How have i never heard of anyone trying that as an excuse? It's so incredibly dumb and stupid, but it's also...right there .
My ex-wife used to say that because her step-father was Jewish and she'd celebrate Jewish holidays.
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Dec 27, 2022 07:45
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- facialimpediment
- Feb 11, 2005
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as the world turns
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It's a curb your enthusiasm joke if I've ever heard one
worse (from 2014)
https://twitter.com/LateNightSeth/status/459403575995555840?t=2sXP3_e5xnoWo8stZ7zDxA&s=19
Also, there were local journalists, and even the other campaign, that knew about some of this stuff or had feelings about it. The political side figured "hey, he's a MAGAnator" would be enough of an attack (lol) and didn't yell enough about it.
The big remaining question is where the gently caress he personally got all that money from, recently. Dude went from completely broke to being able to loan his own campaign $700k - that's the kind of lying that will get you hosed, not the resume poo poo.
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Dec 27, 2022 13:08
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- Coasterphreak
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I like cookies.
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The answer is russian oligarchs, the saudis are tapped out til next year
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Dec 27, 2022 13:51
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- facialimpediment
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as the world turns
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The answer is russian oligarchs, the saudis are tapped out til next year
On Kavanaugh, probably his parents.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/heres-the-truth-about-brett-kavanaughs-finances/
quote:
As it turned out, there were rather simple answers to most of those questions. Kavanaugh explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee that much of his credit card debt stemmed from either work on his fixer-upper mansion or buying Nats season and playoff tickets for himself and a handful of dudes who’d been going to the games together for years. They had paid him back in full, the White House said at the time. As for the rest, while he was maddeningly obtuse in admitting it, Kavanaugh seems to have gotten lots of money from his parents.
As I explained back in 2018, gifts from family don’t have to be reported on federal judicial disclosure forms, and Kavanaugh’s family had deep pockets. He’s the only child of a “swamp creature,” Ed Kavanaugh, a longtime lobbyist for the cosmetics industry who spent his career schmoozing with Beltway insiders to fend off health and safety regulations and dueling with activists who wanted to ban cosmetic testing on animals. When the elder Kavanaugh retired in 2005, his compensation package that year from the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association totaled $13 million, according to the nonprofit group’s IRS filing.
Kavanaugh’s parents ensured he had a privileged upbringing—high school at Georgetown Prep in suburban Washington and an Ivy League education that seems to have left him without a whiff of student loan debt. Their largesse seems to have followed him into adulthood. As Kavanaugh explained in his written answers to Whitehouse: “We have not received financial gifts other than from our family, which are excluded from disclosure in judicial financial disclosure reports.” Rather than reveal any useful details that might have put an end to all the armchair speculation, he deployed opaque lawyerly language and wrote, “[I]t bears repeating that financial disclosure reports are not meant to provide one’s overall net worth or overall financial situation. They are meant to identify conflicts of interest. Therefore, they are not good tools for assessing one’s net worth or financial situation.”
Kavanaugh as failson to rich family tracks pretty well with his shitbaggery. $200k isn't much for them. But nobody knows where the gently caress Santos got his money from, since he was delinquent on rent, busted in Brazil for writing bad checks, and has been sketchy on his financial accounting.
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- Mr. Nice!
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He just found him his own Norman Braman.
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- maffew buildings
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Santos sounds like a self made bootstrapper to me, case closed
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Dec 27, 2022 16:13
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- Milo and POTUS
- Sep 3, 2017
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I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
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Santos sounds like a self made bootstrapper to me, case closed
A triumph of networking
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Santos sounds like a self made bootstrapper to me, case closed
Self made (-it-up).
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