• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    319·
    1 year ago

    Let it be know that if you take office while actively committing fraud, embezzlement, and lying through your teeth about nearly every single detail of your life and accomplishments, the rest of Congress will ONLY let that slide for 11 months! You’ve been warned!

  • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
    160·
    1 year ago

    Mike Johnson said “I personally have real reservations about doing this [expulsion], I’m concerned about a precedent that may be set for that.” Yes, let’s NOT set a precedent of holding politicians accountable for lies, fraud, and theft!

    It should be pretty easy to find the list of everyone else who voted not to expel, so we know who is pro-corruption.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 year ago

        Congress did an internal investigation and determined he likely broke the law. There you go.

        This is just like any other workplace.

        • rhythmicotter@midwest.socialEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          The bar for losing your job as a congress person or any public servant for corruption should be way lower than the bar for being sent to prison.

      • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        He said this well after the Ethics Committee released its findings. Santos was effectively shown to be guilty.

        In the previous attempts at expulsion, a lot of people voted against simply because the report wasn’t out yet. It would have set a dangerous precedent to vote to expel someone without proof of wrongdoing.

      • hglman@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        He literally was just convicted in a trial by his peers. His explosion is exactly the basis for common law including many of the points of the magna carta.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      25·
      1 year ago

      **Took them long enough. But the bad thing about this is that it was at all.necessary. A criminal should not join the house, and if found out should immediately resign on his own. But he stuck to the seat and it took ages to get rid of him.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 year ago

        Sorry, as a Jew, I’m not really seeing the comedy in a guy pretending to be descended from Holocaust victims and then passing it off as a joke.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 year ago

            Are you seriously saying that I support Israel’s genocide because I’m a Jew?

            I’m not an Israeli, I’m an American. I have no interest in Israel at all. You do know that not all Jews are Israelis, right?

      • pheet@sopuli.xyz
        20·
        1 year ago

        Either you are not american or you are the type who thinks burning this to the ground is always somehow the easier and better way to fix things.

          • orcrist@lemm.ee
            16·
            1 year ago

            And yet no, they really aren’t. The criminal charges are not something most of his contemporaries are facing.

              • mriormro@lemmy.world
                14·
                1 year ago

                congress is a full of utter scum. they just expelled poorer and less successful guy - seriously qui bono?
                im not not the only one who thinks that - congress approval is at 15 %

                This isn’t a fucking wrestling show. What happens in there has very real, very deep ramifications for everyday working people out here. Your contempt isn’t protest or positive political action and only serves to minimize the effort, blood, sweat, and tears of people putting in the hard work to organize and mobilize in order to help their constituents and communities. If you don’t like how things are then either get out there and fucking do the work to help us change it for the better or sit the fuck down and stop trying to be an irl 4chan edgelord.

          • pheet@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            1 year ago

            This guy, given his proven baseline morals, would’ve become one of the worst in terms of corruption.

              • pheet@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                1 year ago

                My point is how much he lied about himself, misled his own voters, I don’t see how he would’ve been less corrupt given a bit time. I’m pretty sure it generally holds that a new comer is less corrupt than when he/she is an old timer.

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    1 year ago

    311 to 114
    The house has a Republican majority, you really have to fuck up for them to break the 11th commandment.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      47·
      1 year ago

      Funny story about Reagan and the ‘11th Commandment.’

      Back in the day, a group of Dem women approached their GOP counterparts with a story about Nestle’s Africa operations. Basically, Nestle was tricking poor women by giving away free formula to new mothers. The supply lasted until the mothers stopped lactating, then they had to pay full price. This meant that the babies were not getting enough food at the time they needed good nutrition the most.

      The GOP women wanted the Party to stand up to Nestle, but Reagan talked thme down, and explained that conservatives shouldn’t shaft one another.

      Later on, Reagan attacked President Ford for sticking by the treaty that returned the Panama Canal. There was no way Ford could renege on the treaty, but it made Reagan look like a tough guy.

      • TrumpetX@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Ohh, that news story in “For All Mankind” makes a lot more sense. Alternate timeline, we didn’t give it back.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          It was the 1980s version of ‘The War On Christmas.’ The treaty had been signed decades before, and handing over the Canal meant nothing strategically. WW3 wasn’t going to be decided by a big naval battle. It was pure grandstanding, but Ronnie managed to orchestrate it to perfection

  • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
    34·
    1 year ago

    Nehls claimed, without evidence, that the Ethics Committee had been “weaponized” against Santos.

    “You may accept this report as grounds for expulsion from Congress, but I say no,” Nehls said. “It’s not right. The totality of circumstance appears biased. It stinks of politics.”

    Any amount of ethics will always be resisted by Republicans. 🙄

  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    In the entire history of the US, there have only been five ever expelled from the US House of Representatives. Three of those five that were expelled because of that whole Civil War thing.

    Today, we’ve added a sixth name to that list. George Santos.

    And don’t forget the guy has in front of him a very long list of Federal indictments that include hits like conspiracy against the United States, wire fraud, credit card fraud, and money laundering all of those being really big no-nos. Dude has absolutely not been having the greatest last eleven months of his life and boy oh boy we’re JUST getting started on the downhill for him.

    Like it’s a surprisingly very LONG list of crimes he’s facing, like WTF dude did you just spend the last eleven months going, “Okay I’ve had my morning coffee, time to crime!” And then investigators found more crime after he was indicted and was like “Oh no we’ve got to put all that other crime on pause because … I mean JUST LOOK AT THIS SHIT!!” and filed a superseding indictment. Like shit was so bad, US Prosecutors were like “all his previous crimes, we’ve got to put that shit on pause. This new shit, it’s GOT to take priority.” There’s no way you violate that much of the law just by happy chance.

    I don’t know where we’ll all be at in five years from now, but I DO know that each day from now onward, for George Santos it can only get worse for him. Like today, today is the worse day in George Santos’ life. And tomorrow, tomorrow will be the worse day in George Santos’ life. And that pattern will continue for a good amount of time going forward.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      Turns out, the whole “can’t arrest me for criming as long I commit new crimes for you to investigate” only works for a certain fat, orange, drowned-muskrat-wearing Floridiot.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 year ago

        Now im imaging Trump wearing the rotting corpse of Musk on his head like Heracles wearing the skin of the Nemian lion. But instead of being noble and a sign of power its just slowly decaying rich fuck wearing a rapidly decomposing rich fuck.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    29·
    1 year ago

    “It almost would have been a dereliction of my duty if I did not support this,” Guest said Friday. “I did what I felt was right from a personal point of view.”

    It absolutely would have been yet another dereliction of your duty.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    25·
    1 year ago

    311 to 114… And they only needed 290 to bounce him. +21 more than necessary!

    Apparently we CAN work together!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The House on Friday voted to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress — an action the chamber had taken only five times in U.S. history and not for more than 20 years — in response to an array of alleged crimes and ethical lapses that came to light after the freshman lawmaker was found to have fabricated key parts of his biography.

    The vote followed the release two weeks ago of a 56-page Ethics Committee report that accused Santos of an array of misconduct — including stealing money from his campaign, deceiving donors about how contributions would be used, creating fictitious loans and engaging in fraudulent business dealings.

    Santos, the report alleges, spent hefty sums on personal enrichment, including visits to spas and casinos, shopping trips to high-end stores and payments to a subscription site that contains adult content.

    A defiant Santos has long denied wrongdoing and resisted calls to resign, claiming at a news conference Thursday that fellow House members were “bullying” him and that the Ethics Committee report was incomplete and “littered with hyperbole.”

    During House debate Thursday over the resolution, Guest defended the work and report of the panel, saying investigators spent eight months reviewing 172,000 pages of documents and interviewing 40 witnesses.

    During long-winded remarks on X Spaces last week, Santos — despite saying he would not step down from office — said he no longer wanted to work with “a bunch of hypocrites” in Congress, whom he accused of committing infractions more severe than his, including being “more worried about getting drunk every night” with lobbyists.

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