Rep. George Santos was charged with theft in Pennsylvania’s Amish Country in 2017 after a series of bad checks were written in his name to dog breeders https://t.co/eQJnbkYmuT
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 9, 2023
Does even a day--a single day--go by without some new story of this guy having ripped someone off or told some ridiculous lie? But the little details like getting charged with theft for floating bad checks to Amish puppy breeders and getting the record expunged because his checkbook was "stolen"? (Santos being a person also charged with stealing the odd checkbook himself, now and then.) He makes career criminals feel like their own lives were just wasted, and if they only had a little more gumption....
He beggars nearly every description you could think of, except for Republican congressman.
UPDATED: The story about background chameleon Anna Paulina Mayerhofer Luna is probably not going to be the same magician's hat with some new and odd thing being drawn out of it every day, but there is a certain type of person we are looking at here: shameless, malleable, concerned with being liked and not especially interested in authenticity, basically--famewhores.
I noted somewhere on Twitter that I'm interested in George Santos--who spent about nine months in Orlanda, and the weird Florida miasma of dirty money and rampant corruption. Both Santos and Luna, for example, are "skeptical" (hostile) about aid to Ukraine. They are young are definitely working an identity politics angle. (The GOP covets a younger, more diverse face--to make a recruitment brochure photo spread like a good university might have.) They've both promoted the "rigged elections" line. (But that might just be something the kids have to do to get by in the GOP these days.)
A dive into her campaign financials might be interesting.
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At the SoTU, 'Santos' threw up the White Power hand signal. I have no doubt he serves this entire term and the harsh cynic in me sees him claiming a 100% rating on rightwing issues and winning re-election in 2024.
I'm cynical myself, but it looks like George has just too much legal smoke getting thrown his way--the FEC stuff looks especially concerning, and I believe he just got an ultimatum about declaring for reelection so he could either put to bed his shenanigans or tempt fate by continuing them. But the type of candidate Santos (and Luna, who I added a little about) fascinate me--Are they literal machine pols: literally manufactured by the GOP machine as influencers to pull things further right, create chaos, wreck faith in politicians? Or are they grifters who exploited the dirty sexy money slopping around the party and just want some of that cheddar?
Some of her campaign photos are little more than porno promos ...
Luna started as a bartender in a "gentleman's club", but she reminds me a lot of the various bits of crumpet that were "recruited" via Explore Talent.
https://occupydemocrats.com/2022/06/15/bad-actors-politicians-pundits-spies-and-chaos-agents-all-have-exploretalent-in-common/
Politics is just another form of celebrity.
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