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Never. Ever. Pick a fight with a teenager on social media.
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I didn't get very far. It gave me real Amazon Prime "The Wheel of Time" vibes.
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From the above linked article:
QuoteAs of now, only Democrats are calling for Santos to resign from the post that was considered a longshot win for Republicans in the first place. And the GOP — both locally and in the House — is unlikely to call for him to step down in the thin majority. But one Republican familiar with the discussions said Santos has told New York party leaders that he won’t seek reelection after this term. If he doesn’t make that statement openly soon, the Republican said, he risks those leaders publicly pulling support.
Interesting, but what the hell difference does an open statement make? Every lie he's told has been an open statement. But he'd be telling the truth this time?
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Of course that. But that statement is a far cry from insinuating that he's somehow relieved from the scandal.
Here's a good article about it:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/28/george-santos-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-00075706
QuoteWhile some of George Santos’ soon-to-be colleagues are encouraging investigations into his many resume fabrications, Kevin McCarthy’s speakership battle in a narrow majority is complicating his fate.
The New York Republican, who has admitted to fabricating much of his personal and professional biography, is set to be sworn into Congress the same day the House will start votes for a new speaker.
But House GOP leader McCarthy, with only four party votes to spare and an open rebellion among a handful of House conservatives, needs all the support he can get — even if it comes from a member-elect steeped in scandal.
Quote“At a minimum, it was a colossal lack of judgment that has now put the conference in a very difficult position,” retiring Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), who represented a similarly moderate district in the state, said of Santos.
“Do they defend someone they know has made several material misstatements about his background? Or do they cut him loose with a razor-thin majority?” Katko added, calling it a “no-win situation.”
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I imagine the GOP leadership has no problems with this scandal. Santos has moved the political talk from "can McCarthy find 218 votes" to the lies of a unknown politician that has zero power.
It wouldn't shock me if McCarthy's camp is behind some of the revelations about Santos. Even just advising some reporters to look more at Santos' background.
Not worth arguing, really, but I disagree with every bit of that.
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18 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
I’d give him partial credit if the cancer came from 9/11- if he had mentioned it in that way.
There are a couple outs. That's one. "I meant that it was as if she died that day- she was never the same" is another. Either way it's bullshit. There's no record of her having been there.
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What, so she died on 9/11ish (give or take 15 years).
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Republican DA in Nassau County (New York) has opened a criminal investigation.
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11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
where did he get the money to loan to his campaign ?
Mother Jones did some good preliminary reporting on it that I linked a while back.
QuoteWhen Santos joined Harbor City, the company was already in trouble. Weeks earlier, the Alabama Securities Commission had prohibited Harbor City from doing business in the state. It alleged that the company was run by “fraudsters” who were “out to deceive Alabamians and profit off unsuspecting investors by using dazzling marketing tactics to sell unregistered bonds.”
In April 2021, the SEC filed its complaint charging that the firm and Maroney had mounted an extensive Ponzi scheme. The agency maintained that Maroney pocketed more than $4.8 million of the $17.1 million he raised from investors and used that money to pay $1.35 million in personal credit card bills, buy a $90,000 Mercedes-Benz, and purchase a waterfront home. The only other person named in the complaint was Maroney’s wife. No other Harbor City employees were implicated. In October, Maroney, who is representing himself, requested a stay in the SEC action against him and Harbor City, noting that he “is currently the target in a related criminal investigation.” Maroney did not respond to messages requesting comment.
Santos has said he was unaware of the alleged Ponzi operation.
Scott Silver, a Florida attorney who has represented Harbor City investors allegedly bilked, said there should have been many red flags for Santos and other employees. “Any person from the financial services industry, who went to work for a company like Harbor City, should immediately have recognized that Harbor City wasn’t properly registered as a financial services company,” Silver told Mother Jones. “Even if you didn’t know the company was operating as a fraud or a Ponzi scheme, a sophisticated person affiliated with the company should have known they weren’t licensed to do what they claimed to be doing.”
Weeks after the SEC leveled its accusation against Maroney and Harbor City, Santos formed Devolder Organization LLC and incorporated it in Florida. (His full name is George Devolder-Santos.) The registered agent for Devolder was D&D International Investment Services. That company is run by DeVaughn Dames, who served as Harbor City’s chief financial officer. Around the same time, Dames also formed a company for another Harbor City exec, Paul Nicolini.
TLDR: He worked for a company called Harbor City that got blown up as a Ponzi Scheme. He then started a company called Devolder with the former CFO of Harbor City. My guess is that he either made a bunch of money off of Harbor City or, (more likely) recreated the scheme at his own company.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Here's one of those articles mentioned in the Nuzzi piece, from 1992. https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner
I thought he was a piece of shit going back a long way. I had honestly thought either I was wrong or he could stop being a total piece of shit for a little while to be President (I have a tendency to give people benefit of the doubt when I don't have first hand knowledge of their shittiness). I was wrong.
From that 1992 article:
Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,” his lawyer had told me. “If you say something again and again, people will believe you.”
“One of my lawyers said that?” Trump said when I asked him about it. “I think if one of my lawyers said that, I’d like to know who it is, because I’d fire his ass. I’d like to find out who the scumbag is!”
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Here's Olivia Nuzzi's new article in the New Yorker that has Trump not very happy.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-running-for-president-2024.html
It's a long but decent read, though there's not anything new in it. It mostly just portrays him as pathetic and lonely. Here's my favorite bit:
Quote...he has barely set foot outside the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago. For 28 days, in fact, he has not left the state of Florida at all.
He is sensitive about this. He does not like what it suggests. So he does not accept the premise. “Sometimes I don’t even stay at Mar-a-Lago,” he told me. What do you mean you don’t stay there, I asked. Where do you stay? “I stay here,” he said, “but I am outside of Mar-a-Lago quite a bit. I’m always largely outside of Mar-a-Lago at meetings and various other things and events. I’m down in Miami. I go to Miami, I go to different places in Florida.”
What he means when he says “Miami” is that his SUV rolls down the driveway, past the pristine lawn set for croquet and through the Secret Service checkpoint at the gate, for the two-hour trip to another piece of Trump real estate, the Trump National in Doral, about eight miles from the airport in Miami-Dade County. There, he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding. He goes there to play golf.
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Late entry for quote of the year right there.
I'm fully expecting any day now to read that this dude isn't even American.
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On 12/19/2022 at 9:06 PM, TexasHooch said:
What would you be saying to someone who started a post bitching about a roofer they hired without doing any due diligence?
Ha! Apparently he would say fuck-all.
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Yesterday I learned that pretty much all US military vehicles are made in China, and that the military aid we're sending Ukraine is just getting taken by Russia immediately.
I can't wait for today's knowledge bombs!
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Just swinging by to offer a heartfelt fuck-you to Chevy for locking down their batteries in the Silverados like Fort Knox. What a fun exercise that was at 8:00 this morning!
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I find this whole story to be absolutely fascinating- I can't wait for the Netfix Documentary!
Here's an article tackling his business dealings and claims. It's full on Ponzi schemes, and offshore operations.
QuoteAfter working at a firm that ran conferences for investors—and earning a $55,000 salary there—Santos in July 2020 was hired as a New York regional director for Harbor City, which sought investors for a business generating digital customer leads to sell. In a press release announcing this move, JP Maroney, Harbor City’s CEO, said he had known Santos for years and called him a “perfect fit.” At the time, Santos was mounting his first bid for Congress in Long Island, which he would lose that November.
When Santos joined Harbor City, the company was already in trouble. Weeks earlier, the Alabama Securities Commission had prohibited Harbor City from doing business in the state. It alleged that the company was run by “fraudsters” who were “out to deceive Alabamians and profit off unsuspecting investors by using dazzling marketing tactics to sell unregistered bonds.”
In April 2021, the SEC filed its complaint charging that the firm and Maroney had mounted an extensive Ponzi scheme. The agency maintained that Maroney pocketed more than $4.8 million of the $17.1 million he raised from investors and used that money to pay $1.35 million in personal credit card bills, buy a $90,000 Mercedes-Benz, and purchase a waterfront home. The only other person named in the complaint was Maroney’s wife. No other Harbor City employees were implicated. In October, Maroney, who is representing himself, requested a stay in the SEC action against him and Harbor City, noting that he “is currently the target in a related criminal investigation.” Maroney did not respond to messages requesting comment.
Santos has said he was unaware of the alleged Ponzi operation.
QuoteWeeks after the SEC leveled its accusation against Maroney and Harbor City, Santos formed Devolder Organization LLC and incorporated it in Florida. (His full name is George Devolder-Santos.) The registered agent for Devolder was D&D International Investment Services. That company is run by DeVaughn Dames, who served as Harbor City’s chief financial officer. Around the same time, Dames also formed a company for another Harbor City exec, Paul Nicolini.
When Mother Jones called a number associated with Nicolini, the person who answered immediately hung up after hearing Santos’ name.
What Devolder did is unclear. On a campaign website in 2021, Santos described it as his family’s firm and said he was a managing member who oversaw “asset allocations” of $80 million. There is nothing in the public record that explains how he and his family supposedly came to oversee such a large fortune. The Times reported that Santos was evicted from apartments in Queens in 2015 and 2017. (He later claimed to be a landlord impacted by a New York eviction moratorium, though his financial disclosure filings contained no information indicating he owned property in the United States.)
In April 2022, Santos provided a different description of Devolder to the Daily Beast. He said he had started Devolder to help “all the people who were left adrift [by Harbor City].” He also said that the firm had by then been dissolved.
On the financial disclosure form Santos filed in September 2022, he characterized Devolder in yet another way, calling it a “Capital intro consulting company.” He stated that he had earned $750,000 in salary and between $1 million $5 million in dividend income from Devolder in 2021 and the same amounts in 2022. This means he claimed he pulled in between $3.5 million and $11.5 million from a firm that existed less than a year, that produced no public signs of any work, not even a website, and that he has not described consistently. Santos also stated on his 2022 form that he had a checking account worth between $100,000 and $250,000 and a savings account worth between $1 million and $5 million. His 2020 financial disclosure form listed no such accounts and no such assets.
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You seem to be experiencing some good ole fashioned envy. Understandable, but it'll eat you up if you let it.
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Actual footage of the attorney addressing the judge:
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No idea. The fuck do I care?
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Is this bad? This seems bad. And really embarrassing.
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Just tried to watch. Fucking stupid. I rolled my eyes through season 2 but it's clear they're doubling down on the absurdity, so I'm out.
It's really just the show "24" without the timeline.
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I don't boil or roast. Tomato (cans unless they're in season locally), jalapeno, onion, garlic, cilantro, lime juice, cumin, white pepper, cayenne, and salt.
I don't use a recipe, I just throw the shit in and reserve enough of each ingredient to tinkier until it tastes like I want it.