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Jules's avatar

In the HIGHLY unlikely event this isn't a complete fabrication, I imagine it went down more like this: kid wanders away from the playground (maybe wants to get away from her weird family for awhile?) and happens to be discovered by two gentlemen, whose nationalities or ethnicities may or may not involve East Asia.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

I had a student sort of like that. He came to my office and asked for two weeks off because his mother had died when he was young, and his aunt raised him. His aunt had just died.

I did not check because who the hell checks that? People do not just lie about the loss of their mom as a child, right?

A year later he mentioned his mom's birthday. I was like, "Oh I thought she had passed for some reason", he was like, "No why would you think that?". Anyway later he was super mad later when I would not write him a recommendation. I did not argued. I just noted that I could say no, and that I was.

Lord knows what he would say in an interview for a good job, if he would lie about his mom and his aunt just to have some time to do whatever.

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AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

Does he even have a niece? Maybe he doesn't?

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GrannysKnitting's avatar

he's not even a skilful liar - his lies didn't hold up long enough for him to establish himself as great at (something, there has to be something, right?) and therefore a valuable member of congress. He came into congress known as a liar, was exposed even more, and is only there to maintain the numbers. There is nothing redeeming about him - you can't even say he's a snazzy dresser

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

That man Devolder-DosSantos is a danger to himself and it is going to end badly.

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Babe Paley's avatar

As with many of you, I must report that my parents also survived 9/11 (driving through Kansas)l and all my grandparents survived the Holocaust (being in a submarine in the Pacific/southern Colorado helped).

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Atrele Kasha's avatar

I, personally, survived 9/11. It's a bit of a story...

Oh, what's the story? I was in an entirely different state and never stepped into the WTC at any point in my life.

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

Interesting about your grandparents. Mine survived the D-Day landings, also in Southern Colorado.

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

I had no idea this Holocaust Survivor racket was so easy.

Thank you, George Santos!

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Tessie's avatar

Surprise twist: The 5 year old girl is ALSO George Santos.

As are the kidnappers.

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

Police are tracing down the factoids.

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Tetman Callis's avatar

George Santos is my brother. Or my sister. Or both. Our mother did indeed survive 9/11, and our grandparents survived the Holocaust. We light a candle for George every Christmas Eve, and set a plate for him at our Passover table, knowing he's out there, somewhere, looking for the truth, struggling to make his way back home, where his faithful dog Argos sleeps in the yard, awaiting his return.

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PhoenixDogLover's avatar

In ten years, George Santos will either be Ruler for Life of All Lands West of Bermuda, or he'll be selling loosies outside the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown.

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Maybe the Queen of Canada can let him be Queen of the US.

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

Why not both?

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Sherry's avatar

I still stand by my belief that the baby he was carrying last week was a doll. It's the only explanation.

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belfryo's avatar

But ya DID blanche, ya DID

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belfryo's avatar

"If he were not such a jackass, one might actually feel a little badly for him."

Yeah, that's where I am too...There is actually something WRONG with him...mental illness wise...People like to accuse RW garbage as being mentally ill but that's an insult to MOST people who have mental illness issues...MOST of the people I know and love most dearly have SOME form of it or another...

But Santos...something is DEEPLY wrong with him...His lying is even WORSE than Trump's....Because at least Trump's serves a rational PURPOSE even as horrid as it is...

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Atrele Kasha's avatar

What's wrong with him is that he is a massively sleazy jackass who had one tactic work out really well for him up until, like Trump discovered, it didn't.

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

Still a member of the House of Representatives.

No other R-member will vote to expel him.

Who's crazy now?

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randomnessliz's avatar

I still remember that last-lap pass he made on Richard Petty to win the 1971 Firecracker Four Hundred. What a race car driver!

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

And don't forget that Adolf Hitler lost to him by a fraction of second.

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William Donnell's avatar

Was that the one where he one o'clocked the Wall, and unplugged his brain stem?

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belfryo's avatar

How is that possible? He beat Jackie Stewart in the 1971 Grand Prix...Could you have your races mixed up...I mean it was the same year, so it's understandable

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Tessie's avatar

Hay you guyzes, remember when they interviewed Jackie Stewart and Richard Petty, and you needed subtitles to follow BOTH of them, even though they were both technically speaking English?

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belfryo's avatar

LOL!

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Doug Langley's avatar

Golly. How can they be so mean to the first guy to perform a heart transplant?

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belfryo's avatar

blindfolded

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Charles  Schlotter's avatar

On himself.

With a butter knife.

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Doug Langley's avatar

M*A*S*H:

"So Charles, have you ever done a xxxxx?"

"Yes, but I had difficulty."

"AHA! So you admit it was hard?"

"Of course. It was during a power failure."

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Tessie's avatar

On himself.

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Babe Paley's avatar

You know, I went all through school with this one girl--we were frequently in the same groups because we were both seen as some of the "smart ones", and the teachers seemed to think we should be friends? And for a few times in elementary school we were, but we also had times when we hated each other.

Anyway, she pissed me off so much because she was SUCH a liar, and the adults just let her get away with it. She maintained that her grandmother (or great-grandmother) was Anastasia of the Romanovs. Like, she would not let that go over all the years I knew her. She also claimed she had been kidnapped by some Russian group or another as a youngster because of this lineage. To the point where in our high school honors English class an assignment was to write our autobiography, and she included all that bullshit.

We both got As on the assignment, and when I later complained to the teacher about it she kind of shrugged and was like, "well, it WAS well-written". I was like, so was mine, but I actually DID THE ASSIGNMENT!

As you can see, I'm still a little ticked about her after all this time--I still will check in on her, and she's still lying about stuff (though not in Congress).

I freaking hate liars.

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Tina Mouse's avatar

I kind of expected her to be a republican somewhere living off the grift.

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William Donnell's avatar

Kick her in the c...knee.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Sounds like the perfect republican legislator.

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Colbert Thorenson's avatar

Does George Santos even have a niece? Does anyone have a niece? Is niece even a word?

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John Norris's avatar

I thought Niece was a town in France.

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Anti-Social Socialist's avatar

No, but that town is pretty Nice.

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