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In what can only be called a significant lack of self-awareness, New York U.S. Rep. George Santos, the serial fabulist under federal indictment on fraud charges, is crying foul.

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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs Santos, who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surprized there isn't a lemmy community for that yet. This fits the bill.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That was a popular sub on Reddit.

[–] vividspecter@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

There's one on kbin but not very active yet.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is either a moran who playing the fool. The whole GOP is anti gay this fucker had to have known.

When is he going to prison?

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OOOh boy, let me tell you about the Log Cabin Republicans...

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

They're a bunch of gay fools who think that the Republi-nazis will treat them like "one of the good ones" once the Republi-nazis start the dictatorship they want to turn the US into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans

[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

“I used to think he was a great governor,” Santos remarked, The Hill reports. “Now, I’m starting to think differently.”

Wow- harsh words.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"Is that what being misled feels like? Wow, that's awful! People who mislead others are terrible people," he added.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if he knows who Ernst Rohm is.

[–] barrio_libre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Seems unlikely. He doesn’t even know who Ron DeSantis is.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

a bigoted republican? Wut! This has me so shocked.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is like in The Simpsons, when Nelson points to himself in a mirror and laughs, then realizes it's him and that it hurts.

[–] RubberStuntBaby@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And we can believe him, right? Why would he lie?

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That flash followed by the loud pop you all just heard was the sound of my irony meter giving up the ghost.

I don't like that he still gets a platform. He has proven that not only doesn't he act on his words, but his words can't even hold some simple evidence or any kind of resemblance of truth. We can't even trust him to say basic facts, so his words are no more meaningful than a small breeze at sea. He's a pathological liar and that should be the last kind of news we should see about him.

[–] lozunn@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It is a rare feat to be as full of shit as this Santos fellow.
You could probably use him as an emergency reserve of manure for several years without depleting a notable fraction of what he's made of.

something something lepoards

[–] Rodsterlings_cig@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Santos is really going to be upset about DeSantis' view of NCAA champions

[–] yip-bonk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Shocked! Yes, shocked I am that homophobia is going on here!

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No clue what George was expecting.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At this point, they should only report something Santos says if it turns out to be true.

[–] Shit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Who's ready for the story arc when he decides he is in fact super fabulous and can't understand why no one on the other side takes him seriously for half a year before deciding he was never gay and infact the most manly man in the totally straight GOP man club?

[–] Drusas@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate the author trying to sound erudite, but 'fabulist' doesn't mean liar.

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