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House Expels George Santos From Congress

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House Expels George Santos From Congress

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House Expels George Santos From Congress in Historic Vote
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Mr. Santos, a New York Republican, is the sixth member of the House to be expelled in the body’s history. “To hell with this place,” he said after his colleagues ousted him.
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  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    Jesus, after all the shit that has been uncovered about this fucker, 114 voted “No” to throw him out?

    Investigate those 114 motherfuckers.

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      They know the seat will go Dem in the special election, and it just chips away at their teeny tiny majority ahead of the 2024 elections. That’s all there is to it. They know he’s an embarrassment who continuously broke the law, they just don’t care.

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        Nah. They’re on record saying it sets a bad precedent to expel a member before they are convicted. I can only imagine the awful shit they’re hiding and are worried they could get expelled for.

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        Power protects power

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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        George Santos is from tomato red Long Island. The seat is gonna stay red. Long Island was literally founded on racism (look up the history of Robert Moses)

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          The district has gone for Democrats in every presidential election of the past 20 years except once. A Democrat held the house seat for the past ten years prior to the 2022 election. Special elections are usually a little weird and Dem’s have been doing really well in them recently. It might be a competitive and close election, but it’s not a red district by any stretch of the imagination.

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            Nah bro, everyone on Long Island is a racist republican.

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              Say “in Long Island” just to piss em off.

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    Wow it finally happened. Now I wonder if they’ll take away his Grammy, 2 Oscar’s, MTV Movie Award, Nickelodeon Teen Choice Award, and induction into the Grand Ole Opry.

    • Pips@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Wasn’t he also a winner of the Beijing Film Festival’s coveted Crying Monkey Award?

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      He never said any of those things. He just didn’t correct you when you said them.

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        I’m glad he’s finally focusing more on being the Green Ranger.

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    So there’s finally a line: “you must be this shit to get fired”. I expect a lot of people toeing up to it.

    • Beemo Dinosaurierfuß@feddit.de
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      Well yes and no.

      The line was literally defrauding another republican and his mother.
      He could have kept on being as shit as he wants to the out-group, just never turn on the in-group, that has always been the line.

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    I can’t believe that they treated the first Congolese-American female PHD/Astronaut this way. Did she cure polio for nothing? You can’t do enough for some people.

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      I thought he stormed Delaware Beach at Normandy while solving P=NP.

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        deleted by creator

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    And he went home and masturbated and the world went on like nothing happened.

    Seriously wtf, is this the actual end?

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      He’s still under indictment

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        I’m shocked the former King of Spain doesn’t have diplomatic immunity.

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          The emperor-king of Ceylon might though

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        so Santos for President 2028?

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I’m sure he came, he’s dirty like that.

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    So just like any other government job, it was porn at work that does a person in.

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    Poor guy, he’s never going to have good work references.

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    Goodbye to Rep. Evil Pee Wee Herman. He was often hilarious, but he had to go. 

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    We live in historic times. Sixth congressman ejected. First speaker voted out. I wonder what happened around all the other historic times?

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      The American Troubles: Part III

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    Or did they… apparently the NY Times source was a Mr. George Santos…

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      You might remember him because he was the first Asian-American to join the Harlem Globetrotters.

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    Go shit your pants, fuck face.

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    The comment sections are killing me 😭

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s about time!

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    Glad he is finally gone.

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    About fucking time. I’m shocked some Republicans still support the rule of law being used against their own.

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