1 more time George Santos aka Anthony "Tony" DeVolder is a CHAOS AGENT who was installed...

[Botany]

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.... to cause problems just like Putin installed Trump to weaken America from the inside. "Tony"
is doing exactly what who or whomever backed him wanted him to do right now. I would bet
he has Russian backing and or right wingers like the Mercers. Every time he tells an over the
top lie he is just doing his job. I hope the DoJ picks him up before he tries to skip town and at
the very least ships him back to Brazil to face charges for his crimes there.

[Irish_Dem]

1. There are other Russian puppets in Congress who tried to overthrow the election and gov't.

DOJ has done nothing to them.

[Farmer-Rick]

39. I feel like eversince W, the DOJ has been useless

They worked hard at hiding all of W's and Cheney's war crimes. W and Cheney never got prosecuted. Eversince then, DOJ seems to be the Department Of Coverup and not the Department Of Justice.

I think they have been thoroughly corrupted by the criminals they work with.

[Irish_Dem]

51. Yep. How can Santis get busted for taking Russian money when so many others do the same?

And much much worse.

Lying on his resume is far less serious than overthrowing the US gov't.

We know Putin has infiltrated the highest levels of the US govt.
No branch is immune.

The only reason the GOP will get rid of Santis is that he is a distraction.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Yes, their behavior puts the truth to it

Most people can't see it, I get arguments on here against him being a Trump-style redux, but it's there, in plain sight.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. "Installed" is letting voters off too easily.

Just as the VOTERS are to blame for the dumbasses that have been elected into the Alabama legislature.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The Fourth Estate didn't do its job

Their lack of due diligence and silence and showing empty pockets now says they were bought off.

[hlthe2b]

9. LOCAL MEDIA DID. Your derision should be aimed at all those who won't support local media

and who ignore it when it breaks important stories. Younger generations can't be bothered to read local newspapers, even online, much less support them $$. Nor will they watch local news programs on TV. This is only the start of what we will face once it (and all investigative reporting) goes away.


Small, local paper uncovered and reported George Santos scandal before November election
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/small-local-paper-uncovered-and-reported-george-santos-scandal-before-november-election


The Local Paper That First Sounded the Alarm on George Santos
Clare Malone speaks with the publisher and managing editor of the North Shore Leader, the local newspaper that first exposed George Santos’s lies. Why was he elected anyway?
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-local-paper-that-first-sounded-the-alarm-on-george-santos


‘He was weird’: Publisher of Long Island newspaper that exposed Santos knew something was up years before election win

The North Shore Leader was the first newspaper to expose falsehoods made by George Santos before the midterm elections
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-santos-grant-lally-long-island-b2267628.html

[Lonestarblue]

29. And where was his Democratic opponent? Opposition research has a role in any election, but none

seems to have been done here. One would think that candidates and their staffs would read local news and follow up on information about an opponent, especially a Republican who already ran previously.

[hlthe2b]

30. I'm responding to the unfair attacks on local media. As for his opponent & local Dem Party not

aggressively tackling it, I think that is a valid issue. It would appear Lee Zeldin focused all the attention on the Governor's race.

[jaxexpat]

44. One must square the equation of wealth and education to understand America's politics.

As a percentage of the whole, Democrats have more educated and highly educated people than Republicans.
As a percentage of the whole, Republicans have fewer low-end-earner members than Democrats.

Republicans enjoy more financing to support their lo-info message. Democrats have less funding to spread their message which poorly educated people tend to ignore anyway. What could go wrong?

The media covers news. News is that the wealthy are growing ever stronger in their control of US federal, state and local government. It's the old, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make the average American understand complex issues even when perpetual ignorance repeatedly knocks them in the head" trick.

[housecat]

46. This post is a keeper. Thanks

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Sure, but it's still the voters JOB to determine who is the best candidate.

And sort through the lies. I will not let ignorant voters off the hook.

[Farmer-Rick]

45. The problem is the voters don't get the Truth

They get propaganda mostly, or countering stories that muddy the truth. Yeah, local media was on the ball but it was drowned out by corporate media muddying the truth.

Blaming the voters is like blaming the christians and the religious for believing in an invisible god with no evidence. Americans are taught to believe the unbelievable.

[Botany]

8. I believe his opponent tried to bring up his sketchy background put the NY Times and other ...

.... local media would not follow up on it.

[hlthe2b]

10. See my post #9 above. LOCAL MEDIA DID and were IGNORED!

Honestly, put the blame where it belongs. That local newspaper editor tried his best to get the word out.

[Botany]

14. Thanx!

n/t

[WA-03 Democrat]

11. NYT not

Serving the interest of the United States?

Never

[C_U_L8R]

4. He's a GOP agent now.

A convenient shiny object to distract from their other daily crimes and misadministration.

[gab13by13]

6. Anthony Devolder is a threat to our national security.

His assets should be frozen until he is either cleared or indicted.

[agingdem]

13. a shapeshifting psychopath..

devoid of conscience/shame/remorse...this toxic amoral empty suit is enjoying his notoriety, a daily parade of reporters (paparazzi) swarming him, tossing questions, breathlessly waiting for the Santos lying soundbite of the day.. George Anthony Kitara Devolder Daviche Lavinsky Santos is a clear and present danger but in the MAGA sea of traitors, predators, abusers, and thieves he hardly stands out...

[C0RI0LANUS]

7. "Agent of Chaos or Kaos Agent, Chief?"

FYI: Pres Lula is visiting Pres Biden 10 Feb at the White House. There should be two arrest warrants in his jacket pocket.

/

[Scrivener7]

15. And, according to Rachel, the DOJ is telling everyone else to

stop investigating him.

[AZLD4Candidate]

17. DOJ seems to not want to investigate anyone with an "R" next to their name.

[dalton99a]

32. There is a systemic allergy

[RussBLib]

42. Not because he is innocent

...because they are conducting their own investigation. You left that part out, on purpose?

I imagine it could get pretty messy if multiple jurisdictions are all investigating at the same time.

[Nittersing]

52. Maybe DOJ planted him

I don't really think this, but it sure would be a fun turn.

[lark]

16. Deripaska's nephew is his main funder, probably his only funder.

He's just another Putin project.

[Botany]

19. You mean Mr. Deripaska who had the top FBI agent McGonigal, who was in charge of investigating ...

.... Russia's attacks on our democracy on Putin's payroll and was indicted by Mueller which I think
Trump quashed.

Thanks for your post! We now have linkage between DeVolder and Russia.

[lark]

22. Absolutely!!!

The same one Manafort sent all the polling data to. Hmmm.

[Botany]

24. 2 things Manafort also sent data to Kilimnik (russian agent) too

And it was not polling data but data analytics or what could be turned into data analytics aka
weaponized information that showed the FSB where to rat fuck our elections (with inside help
from the GOP/Facebook/Cambridge Analytica)

[lark]

26. I forgot about Kilmnik.

[Botany]

34. So many moving pieces hard to keep up but just remember:

[lark]

36. The oligarchs may change, but the head mad dog, Putin, is the same.

Putin = would be destroyer of the worlds democratic processes and promotor of the slavery of billions of working class folks.

[Botany]

37. Putin, the FSB, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook tested out their rat fucking skills in getting ...

.... the U.K. out of Brexit. Some of the exact same people went on to help Trump and the GOP
in the 2016 elections.

[lark]

38. And they will be helping tfg in 2024 along with another murdering oligarch, MBS.

Both are awful for the entire world.

[Botany]

41. And they worked for Trump in 2020 too

A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

********

BTW not from the Republican senate intel committee produced by republicans above but in 2020 our intelligence
people caught Russia working for Bernie and instead of going after the Russians Trump fired the intelligence
people.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Someone slipped Santos some serious money.

And the liar forged a “campaign treasurer’s” signature — some famous and legit GOP campaign treasurer — on one FEC form.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/politics/santos-campaign-treasurer/index.html

Connected to some “high net worth individuals” all RIGHT.

[calimary]

20. Pick him up and LOCK him up!

[Eyeball_Kid]

21. He was a thieving nutbag before he got noticed in politics.

His notoriety has more to do with a "convergence of related factors" than a recruiting and grooming process that's normally initiated by Russian intelligence. Santos rather fell into the job of mini-Trump, but with chicken scratch in his money bag.

[dclarston13]

23. We need Maxwell Smart to defeat the Chaos agents!

[SledDriver]

25. Guessing that's why Garland's DOJ has stopped all outside investigations into him

[allegorical oracle]

27. MSNBC, at 9:56 est announced Santos just offered to recuse himself from his two committees. n/t

[Hortensis]

56. "Temporarily," but "offered" to McCarthy and accepted.

The speaker said that if the now-vacant seats on the Small Business and Science Committees are filled, it will be on a temporary basis, and Santos would be able to reclaim the spots if and when he answers all questions and is "cleared."

"The voters have elected him and he'll have a voice here in Congress, and until he answers all those questions, then at that time, he'll be able to be seated on committees," McCarthy said.

The Republicans obviously NEED attention to mostly move on and stay moved on. Now me, I wonder what kind of deal they made for Santos not to follow the Marjorie Greene model -- almost daily sensational behaviors to grab the spotlight -- after she was stripped of committee assignments. He's already been showing signs of moving to the far-right institution destroyers.

[LaMouffette]

28. Regardless of how George Santos slithered through the cracks and tricked voters into voting for him,

it is now the responsibility of Keven McCarthy and the rest of the House Republicans to remove him from office.

But they won't.

This is identical to Trump's ludicrous, corrupt, traitorous, treasonous, violent turn as "president." He never should have been elected, and once elected, the Republicans should have joined with Democrats in removing him from office.

But they didn't.

What in bloody hell can we do about having one political party that refuses to put country over party, power, and personal enrichment?

[Botany]

31. I'm begining to think that McCarthy knows that DeVolder/Santos is a Russian backed chaos agent ...

... and is fine with it. After all McCarthy along with Paul Ryan, Steve Scalise, and McConnell all
knew about Trump/Russia in 2016. McCarthy is now trying to weasel out of getting rid of "Tony"
with some mush mouth statement about "the will of the voters" in his district.

[alfredo]

47. And a white nationalist

[LaMouffette]

57. I think you're right. It certainly seems they're fine with Russia destroying American democracy,

just as long as they're on the side of the "winners," which will turn out to be the authoritarian dictators and the world's oligarchs if we can't turn this runaway fascist train around.

McCarthy reminds me of a Bob Dylan lyric: "You just want to be on the side that's winning."

[Martin68]

33. Perhaps. Or maybe Georgie Boy is just an ambitious little liar.

When we know who is funding him and why we'll have a better idea what's going on.

[dalton99a]

35. Santos or whoever he is will be long gone before they can finish the investigation

The POS probably has multiple passports and a large bank account full of stolen/dirty money

[AllaN01Bear]

40. wonder if this is another aka. Also Kown As?

[Evolve Dammit]

43. This smells really bad. Why has the Mueller report not been un-redacted yet? Time for truth. n/t

[moreland01]

48. The real installed agents

are the ones you'd NEVER suspect. This guy is just too obvious. He may want to be a russian agent,
but they'd never have him.

[Botany]

50. I like horses do you?

[Sympthsical]

49. I want to live in the screenplay other people seem to be living in

Where everything is a Bond plot.

George Santos is a pathological liar probably with some kind of mental illness like antisocial personality disorder. They exist all by themselves.

The person he most reminds me of as I watch him is Andrew Cunnanan, the spree killer who murdered five people including Gianni Versace. I read the book Vulgar Favors by Maureen Orth that the American Crime television series was based on, and he was something. Lied about everything. His relationships. His education. His jobs. His net worth. His background in both socioeconomic status and ethnicity. He was Filipino-Italian but would oftentimes tell people he was Jewish. He went by different names depending on the social circles he was moving in.

At the core of it was that he was just kind of too lazy to do anything with his life. He thought he was clever enough (and cute enough) that his lies would carry him. He figured he could ingratiate himself with the right people and manipulate his way into success. That no one would ever put two and two together. In reading about it, it's kind of amazing to see how no one did for so long.

And it worked in part. He got in with some of the right people, had his lifestyle funded, pulled off the appearance of being monied and socially mobile.

But then it didn't work. The lies didn't add up. People started talking with one another and comparing notes. The money ran out. People wanted less and less to do with him. His looks and charisma started fading. Mix in anti-personality disorder, rejection, and failure (with a decent bit of meth addiction) and he snapped.

There are people like this in the world. They can get to a surprisingly high level in society. It's completely coocoo bonkers that one made it into Congress in the age of the internet. But here we are.

(Also, Orth's book is a fantastic read if anyone's interested in the topic).

[muriel_volestrangler]

53. I think someone with major backing would have created a tighter life story

or, if they were the driving force, they'd have found someone more reliable (and they wouldn't have picked someone gay, either - it made his election uncertain). Sure, he's receiving some money from Russians who are betting owning a congressman will help them - but as crooks, not as an overarching plot. And his life indicates he goes and looks for dubious money.

Santos has been making up shit for years, for profit and/or status, and running as a candidate was just his latest scam (since it involves people donating money, it's ripe for exploitation). He doesn't "weaken America" much; he's too junior in Congress. It's just crap for his constituents, who have a congressman they can't trust an inch.

[Botany]

54. I disagree. That crazy ass mother fucker is exactly who they (I would guess Russians) wanted.

He is by design an agent for chaos and that can include a little toad of man talking about
being a great volley ball player or meeting Chuck Schumer's mom and talking smack about
her son. And yes he weakens America by getting us talking about non issues that is in the
in the right wing's agenda. "Did you see what Santos said today?" This is gas lighting on
steroids.

[muriel_volestrangler]

55. It's political gossip, but it's not "America".

Remember that we're political obsessives here. America talks far more about what a Kardashian does, but that doesn't make them a "chaos agent".