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  1. Doesn't  article say he's got more 199.99 documentations than everyone else combined?  I'd like to hear from someone in the know as well, but I don't think it's like the typical reimbursement or company card limits that us common folk deal with,-in which we document for as much as we can get when we go over.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

    The only reason this won't end in suicide is he's a narcissistic sociopath.  For any somewhat normal person all of this would be too much mentally.

    Ugh.  I don't really want to get into it again, but look it up.  The suicide rate, particularly for narcissists, is higher not lower.

  3. 35 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    Not saying that it's untrue, but I would verify anything coming from this guy. He seems to be one of many on the left who tend to post BREAKING!! news that's often incomplete or misleading. 

    https://politicalwire.com/2023/01/25/santos-lists-new-treasurer-who-denies-working-for-him/

    Santos Lists New Treasurer Who Denies Working for Him

    January 25, 2023 at 8:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 214 Comments

    “With a disclosure filing deadline approaching as questions swirl around his use of campaign funds, embattled Rep. George Santos’ campaign appears to be left without a treasurer,” ABC News reports.

    “On Wednesday, several fundraising committees associated with the freshman congressman from New York filed amendments to their statements of organizations, notifying the Federal Election Commission of a new treasurer.”

    “But the newly listed treasurer, Thomas Datwyler, a veteran campaign finance treasurer who has served on multiple other political organizations, says he does not work for the Santos campaign and that the filings were signed under his name without his consent.”

     

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  4. Oh he's gay.  My guess is that his marriage to a woman was related to some immigration thing, and his "husband" was just his boyfriend who fucked off and went back to wherever he's from (word is Brazil) when the pressure ramped up. There's something shady there, of course, and I'm sure that'll drop eventually.  For now he's a ghost.

  5. 1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said:

    Have there been any interviews done with Santos’ husband?

    Nope.  There's been no sign of him.  George didn't bring him to his signing in, no longer mentions a husband in his bio (curiously all of the other lies are still there)  and isn't wearing a ring.  As for husband's history, people have been digging a bit but drawing blanks.  For instance, he is supposedly a pharmacist based in NY but there's no record of his license with the state.

     

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  6. OK.  Back to your regularly scheduled programming:

    This is significant.

    George Santos Admits 500K Personal Loan to Campaign Wasn’t ‘Personal’ 

    It’s been one of the biggest mysteries surrounding George Santos: Where did he get his money? In an amended filing, Santos admits a big chunk wasn’t his.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-santos-admits-500k-personal-loan-to-campaign-wasnt-personal?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=230124-Digest PM&utm_term=G List Daily Beast Newsletter PM

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    George Santos promised reporters a surprise on Tuesday. When he brought coffee and donuts for the journalists staking out his office, it was a letdown. But Santos apparently had another surprise.

    Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.

    However, while the newly amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, it also raised a new question—where did the money come from?

    While both the old and new campaign filings claim that the loans came “from the candidate,” the campaign’s most recent amended filing had ticked the box for “personal funds of the candidate”; on the newly amended filing today, that box is unchecked.

    Another amended filing on Tuesday disclosed that a $125,000 “loan from the candidate” in late October also did not come from his “personal funds,” but like the $500,000 question, did not say where the money came from, when the loan was due, or what entity, if any, backed the money.

    The New York Times reported earlier this month that the Santos operation had solicited large political donations through an entity that was never registered with the Federal Election Commission. That entity appears to share a name—RedStone Strategies—with a private company The Daily Beast previously reported was tied to Santos.

    According to the Times, one donor cut a $25,000 contribution check to RedStone Strategies in late October just days before Santos loaned his campaign $125,000—money he is now telling the FEC came from the candidate, but not from his personal funds.

    “The person who solicited the donor said he was asked by Mr. Santos in the weeks leading up to the campaign to approach donors, some of whom had already given the maximum allowed to Mr. Santos’s election campaign, and to help coordinate their donations to RedStone, according to a person familiar with the arrangement who wished to remain anonymous,” the Times reported.

    Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director of government watchdog Documented and a campaign finance expert, first raised questions about the source of Santos’ “self-funded” $705,000 campaign bankroll in a Daily Beast report last month.

    Santos has previously admitted that he used cash from his company, the Devolder Organization LLC, to finance his campaign—a move legal experts said could add up to an unlawful $705,000 corporate contribution. Santos confirmed to The Daily Beast last month that he withdrew money from his firm specifically to underwrite his campaign, reasoning that he was the firm’s sole owner. (The LLC is not a “sole proprietorship,” however, and its accounts are distinct from Santos’ personal accounts.)

    Santos made the same claim in a WABC radio interview, saying the loans were “the money I paid myself through the Devolder Organization.” (Santos’ most recent financial disclosure shows a $750,000 salary from the Devolder Organization, along with dividends valued between $1 million and $5 million.)

    Today, Fischer said the attempted correction “isn’t a half-measure—it is hardly even a quarter-measure.”

    “I don’t know what they think they are doing,” Fischer told The Daily Beast upon reviewing the filings. “Santos’ campaign might have unchecked the ‘personal funds of candidate’ box, but it is still reporting that the $500,000 came from Santos himself. If the ‘loan from candidate’ didn’t actually come from the candidate, then Santos should come clean and disclose where the money really came from. Santos can’t uncheck a box and make his legal problems go away.”

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Yeah, I spent the night in Branson en route to NW Arkansas a few years back.  We got there at like 10PM and went straight to bed (planned to hike early the next day in Buffalo River wilderness) and the town itself seemed absolutely awful.

    The Ozarks are absolutely beautiful though.  Just stay out of the tourist trap shit.  Much like the Black Hills.

    If Deadwood is wrong I don't want to be right.

  8. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    1.) Who the fuck let you watch Fatal Attraction when you were 9 years old
    2.) If the answer is "no one" then why the fuck did you want to watch Fatal Attraction when you were 9 years old?

    Pfft. Allow me to tell you the story about a little 8 year old Hooch who snuck out of his room late one night and decided that some movie on HBO called Deliverance looked cool:

    Not cool.  Not cool at all.

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  9. I read the book before children.  It was a great piece of writing, but there is no way on God's green earth that I could have gotten through it if I had already had kids.  I won't watch the movie, and I'm sure as hell not going to read it again.   Blood Meridian on the other hand is about ready for another read.  Not that it's any less grim really, but at least I don't internalize it.

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  10. I drive an older Silverado and love the utility of it.  I don't put a ton of miles on it though.

    Honest question:  In TX (and I suppose other warm weather states) what is the ratio of 4X2 trucks to 4X4?  I remember 4X2s being really common in TX, but they're nowhere to be found in MN- for obvious reasons.  

  11. This is good.  It's an interview with 2 people from the only newspaper (The North Shore Leader) that actually sounded the alarm on Santos before the election.

    https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/episodes/local-paper-sounded-alarm-george-santos-nobody-listened (first 23 minutes).

    It's a nice perspective from some locally (and politically) connected folks who were on the ground while the whole thing developed. 

    There's one thing in particular that the editor said that I hadn't heard, or even considered.  It is his opinion that the $700,000 that Santos lent his campaign doesn't exist, and never did.  His belief is that it was just a lie to fundraise.  By pretending to loan the campaign money he could establish credibility as rich, successful, and serious enough to put his own skin in the game. We'll see...

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  12. I fell asleep during episode 2 (tired, not bored) but I like season 4 so far.  I hope they correct the captions though.  Currently, they correctly identify Arabic captions but incorrectly label Hebrew as English.  Wasn't a big deal once I figured it out, but that opening chase scene in Ep 1 was confusing as hell.

  13. Alright, ya'll owe me.  I just watched this hour-long interview from 2020.  

    The entire thing is fascinating(ly horrifying), but here are some things that stood out to me.

    Blames his opponent at the time of only being motivated by government pensions @ 5:05. (note that a former roommate recently recalled a conversation in which "Anthony" cited lifetime healthcare and pension as a motivation to run for congress.)

    Waxes poetic about the importance of "Truth" @ 11:20.

    Talks about his inability to do 2nd grade common core math even though the has an economics degree and works in finance @36:10.

    Talks about his family- including him Mom's executive position at Citigroup- @ 42:00.

    I don't even know how to explain it, but just a ridiculous conversation about the 2nd amendment @46:40

    Talks about the degradation of the traditional family unit and the importance of the nuclear family @53:18-55:38 

    I'm not going to lie (hehe), this guy has tons of charisma.  But, he is so clearly playing a part and- as this was 2 years ago- he was still perfecting the script.  At a couple points in the interview he recognizes that he's made the interviewer bristle a little and he effortlessly qualifies the answer and shifts to a more palatable response.  

     

  14. 13 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Well let's not get hasty. He may be doing exactly what his owners bought him to do.

    While I believe that he could very well be someone's useful idiot, does anyone really think this whole thing was conceived and orchestrated by a foreign actor?  I don't buy it.  It would have been way, way cleaner.  I'm willing to be those people exist at high levels of our government, but this clown aint it.

  15. 19 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    What's the reason for the twitter suspension?

    Great question.  I don't think anyone really knows yet.  Here's an article that gives a little more info on it.

    https://www.mediaite.com/weird/george-santoss-official-congressional-twitter-account-mysteriously-suspended/
     

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    What appears to be the verified Twitter account for Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was listed as suspended, then seemingly briefly restored, and then apparently suspended again on Friday without an explanation.

    The account for serial liar Santos as a government official has only been live a short time, and although his campaign account, @Santos4Congress, is untouched — his last tweet was denying another lie — the official account was suspended on Friday.

    This is the verified account with the new color-code system, meaning it had a grey checkmark with this designation: “This account is verified because it is a government or multilateral organization account.”

     

    An archive search produced only one tweet on the account pre-suspension, from the 18th of January.

    Twitter users noticed the account was suspended on Friday morning. Then the communications director for fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz said that the account appeared to have been restored, but shortly after it was either once again or still suspended when other users, including this writer, visited the page.

    Neither Twitter nor Santos have posted any explanations or comments on the suspension at the time of this post. If that happens we may update with more information.

     

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