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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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          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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      It’s not rocket science. The only publicly said reason it’s never happened before is they want to respect the decision of their constituents. Unofficially, nobody wanted to see themselves on that chopping block.

      From a political scientist game theory point of view it’s possible that a majority faction of party A throws a minority faction of Party A on the chopping block and Party B obliges them because they think they can pick up those voters.

      So yeah, a lot of resistance to actually unseating someone. For good and bad reasons.

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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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        At first, settlers had stuck to the edges of America, leaving the middle untouched, like a frozen pie in a microwave.

        But Americans back then weren’t the humble, unassuming people they still aren’t today.

        They believed in something called Manifest Destiny, the belief that all the land belonged to them and that God wanted them to go west and claim it back from the Native Americans he’d put there first by mistake.

        -Philomena Cunk from Cunk on Earth.

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      Absolutely nothing about this guy requires Russia to explain.

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      Nah he’s a piece of shit from my neck of the woods, he more than likely saw what Trump was able to get away with and said “I live in prime Trump moron land, I can pull this off.” So he lied about literally everything and almost got away with it lol I know 100 other people who would try the same thing.

      Most of us long islanders are absolute garbage selfish greedy assholes lol

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      This dude was a straight russian psy-op right?

      Well, he claims to be gay, but the rest is spot-on

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      I refuse to believe the KGB has that much of a sense of humor.

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      Hey everyone, so here’s the deal with Santos aka Kitara Ravache: he’s totally heading back to Brazil, probably to chill on a reality show. But the real game plan? He’s gonna make bank selling some sketchy stuff and, get this, he’s got a pretty good chance of landing a gig as a deputy back there

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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.

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    Now convict him of his crimes so he doesn’t have any of the other perks of Congress.

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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.

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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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    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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        Overall vote tally:

        98% (206) of Democrats voted yes (to expell)

        1% (2) voted No

        1% (2) voted present

        49% (105) of Republicans voted to expel

        51% (112) of Republicans voted No

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        I’m betting AOC is because they’re both from NY and they’re very close geographically. Definitely seems like a conflict of interest

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        Their no votes were because they wanted due process and judicial conviction before kicking him out.

        Nikema Williams’ statement:

        “Unfortunately, George Santos won a free and fair election and elections have consequences. He also has not yet been convicted of a crime and the ethics investigation is ongoing. It would be dangerous to set the precedent of expelling a Member of Congress who has not been convicted of a crime. When and if Santos is convicted of these serious offenses an expulsion resolution would be more appropriate. Let’s be clear – we have current members who have been accused of even more egregious crimes while the Republican majority continues to look the other way.”

        Robert Scott’s statement:

        “The Ethics Committee is charged with investigating alleged wrongdoing by members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In the past, I have been appointed to serve on multiple investigative subcommittees, and I can personally attest to the nonpartisan, rigorous and deliberative process conducted by the committee. In fact, the committee is expected to soon release findings and recommendations on the Santos matter. These resolutions were rushed to the floor outside of that deliberative process. In 2002, I voted to expel Rep. James Traficant but that was after he was found guilty in a court of law. Absent any report or recommendation from the committee, or a criminal conviction, these resolutions are premature. For the sake of the institution, we must stop the cheapening of the censure and expulsion processes for political expediency and get back to the process that we already have in place to appropriately deal with these matters.”

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          Which is bullshit, because his open, verified non-criminal lies should have been enough to have him expelled from Congress.

          I guess we know which side of the truth these particular so called politicians are on.

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

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          That’s right, and then his grandparents were holocaust survivors in WWII. The delorean he invented and built almost broke down a couple times, but he made it!