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#303164 20-Jan-2023 11:54
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There is not a specific thread for political deplorables, so everything of that nature kind of gets dumped in the Trump tip. But I think these cretins deserve their own special place of dishonour.

 

Cretin number 1 is, of course, Republican Congresscreep George Santos, or whatever he calls himself at any given moment. Of course his lies and fraud and dishonesty have been well-documented, but according to American media reports, he has managed to find a new low that is particularly offensive even by his subzero standards. 

 

The story is that a disabled homeless American military veteran could not afford essential treatment for the beloved service dog he had been gifted, but was referred to a supposed animal charity being operated by Santos under a different name. Santos ran with the story, raised $3000 for the dog on GoFundMe, then ran with the money. After repeated fruitless attempts to get the money from him, the vet was forced to beg in the streets to raise enough to have the dog put out of its misery.

 

Of course Santos denies the story. Maybe it isn't true, in spite of the witnesses, but on the basis of Santos' record, I rather suspect it is. 

 

In other words, a member of the US House of Representatives stole money from a dying dog! How low can you go?

 

 

 

 





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  #3024738 20-Jan-2023 11:56
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I wouldn't call them "subhumans" but rather deplorables.

 

This word defines them clearly, without other connotations.





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  #3024741 20-Jan-2023 12:04
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Done. Sorry. I am actually pretty angry about that dog.

 

 

 

 





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  #3025558 22-Jan-2023 16:18
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Two deplorable cartoons to support this thread ...

 

 





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  #3025560 22-Jan-2023 16:32
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The Daily Beast: George Santos’ claim he was an early COVID ‘Survivor’ has big holes

Amid all the many lies that George Santos has told, one strange episode has received less attention—his recovery from COVID-19 at the very start of the pandemic, despite a set of serious underlying conditions.

On March 1, 2020, the very first confirmed case of COVID-19 appeared in New York state. On March 30, Santos, who was then running to represent New York’s 3rd congressional district in the House of Representatives, appeared on a local conservative podcast and told the story of his survival after contracting the virus.

“Unfortunately on the 9th of March I became symptomatic with what we all know now very well, COVID-19 a.k.a coronavirus, commonly known as the Chinese flu,” he said, with a wry giggle.
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“I have an immunodeficiency and I have acute chronic bronchitis. I also battled a brain tumor a couple of years ago, and I had radiation done, which really lowers your immunity in general,” he told the podcast hosts. “Radiation isn’t a game. I’m susceptible to cancer. It’s in my DNA.”
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“They’re calling me a survivor,” he said. “I don’t know if I really survived anything. It’s just flu.”
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On March 14, 2020, the day that Santos originally said he received his own positive test for coronavirus and was bedridden with fever, his campaign tweeted a press release on the unfolding COVID-19 crisis including a lengthy quote from Santos, and praising then-President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. The tweet made no mention of Santos’ own illness.

On March 18, 2020, four days after he originally claimed he had received a positive test and was very sick with COVID, Santos appeared on Fox Business, showing no signs of illness.
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Although Santos never again mentioned having a brain tumor or undergoing radiation, he did go on to retell his COVID survival story many times during his first failed campaign and his second successful bid for the House of Representatives.

But the details, including the severity of his illness and the timeline of the story, began to shift.
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  #3025564 22-Jan-2023 16:45
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kingdragonfly: The Daily Beast: George Santos’ claim he was an early COVID ‘Survivor’ has big holes

 

I have an immunodeficiency and I have acute chronic bronchitis. ...

 



 

Bollocks. There is no such thing as "acute chronic bronchitis".

 

By definition acute and chronic are medical opposites.

 

Acute illnesses generally develop suddenly and last a short time, often only a few days or weeks. Chronic conditions develop slowly and may worsen over an extended period of time - months to years.





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  #3025565 22-Jan-2023 17:02
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I think the brain tumour won.

 

 





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  #3025570 22-Jan-2023 17:18
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He has a brain? I suppose he does have to have something, to dream all this crap up from.


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  #3025625 22-Jan-2023 22:20
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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay an extra $473m for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.

The Connecticut judge's order brings to $1.44bn the total amount Jones has to pay following the defamation trial.

Plaintiffs had asked for extra damages, citing Jones's "utter lack of repentance" and "historic" wrongdoing.

Jones now admits the attack in which 20 children and six adults were killed on 14 December 2012 was "100% real".

Alex Jones Is Now Personally Bankrupt

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  #3025644 23-Jan-2023 07:28
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So...does that mean he has to shut his big, stupid, lying mouth now, and we don't have to listen to his bs ever again?

 

I had to laugh when I saw his lawyer try and argue some time ago that him having to payout even only $1m to the victims of Sandy Hook was impossible as he couldn't afford it. However I think his income and bank account say otherwise.


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  #3025686 23-Jan-2023 09:47
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Explaining George Santos

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  #3025730 23-Jan-2023 12:32
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If we are going to talk about Political Deplorables, we can't really ignore Mr Putin or his puppets, Kadyrov of Chechnya and Lukashenko of Belarus. 

 

Deplorable in every way. 





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  #3025859 23-Jan-2023 16:27
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The thread title reminds me of this song.  It's bit dated now and you could substitute many of the names with current generation ones.(Roger Waters actually did drop Bush and Blair in there during his Auckland show in 2007.)

 

 

"...did they expect us to treat them with any respect..."





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  #3025899 23-Jan-2023 18:41
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The Guardian - Proud Boys on defensive at sedition trial haunted by absent Trump

 

22  Jan 2023

 


While federal prosecutors are casting the Capitol insurrection trial of five far-right Proud Boys leaders as an attempt to bring participants of an attack on US democracy to account, the members of the group are using the proceedings to ask one question even some of their opponents on the political left agree is valid.

 

Why have prosecutors so far only focused their energy on the supporters of Donald Trump who are accused of a coordinated invasion of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021? 

 

Is it because they regard the former Republican president himself - who urged his supporters to “fight like hell” that deadly day - as too formidable and them as easier targets? ...

 

It could be a couple of weeks more, if not longer, before jurors decide the outcome of the charges against Tarrio, Rehl, Nordean, Pezzola and Biggs, who each face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy.

 





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  #3025983 24-Jan-2023 07:22
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/23/politics/richard-barnett-pelosi-office-january-6

 

During the trial, Barnett testified he was pushed into the Capitol during the riot and was looking for a place to use the restroom inside the building, admiring all the artwork along the way. Barnett was combative with prosecutors during his testimony, and prosecutors later accused him of lying and being “belligerent.”

 

“I wasn’t part of that protest, I was pushed in,” Barnett said during his testimony, where he described himself as “hyper.”

 

Cry me a river, mate - you don't look like you were pushed into her office at all. In fact, you look very laid-back and confident like you felt like you were quite within your rights doing what you did.

 

There's another place you will probably have to learn to feel so "confident" but not "hyper" as well - jail! 😀


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  #3026021 24-Jan-2023 09:40
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/new-yorkers-santos-resign-poll-00078975

 

If accurate, these numbers are really bad for Mr Santos.


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