# How was George Santos' resume not an election issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 27, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188 "2022-12-27T23:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/461 "2023-01-24T15:24:04Z")
Who is supposed to _believe_ that he was the victim of a crime? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/462 "2023-01-24T22:10:49Z")
Well, he should quit that damn dangerous job. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/463 "2023-01-25T18:42:37Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > yeah, I saw it. He was pretty good and even slipped in the “A-OK” sign. I’d love for two impersonators to meet and to start accusing each other of lying. That would be _awesome_. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/464 "2023-01-25T18:45:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Put the pieces together, people. That reference to what Trump said is so obvious, it must surely be deliberate trolling by Santos. I’m starting to like him. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/465 "2023-01-25T18:55:20Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > That reference to what Trump said is so obvious, it must surely be deliberate trolling by Santos. I’m starting to like him. I’d love to see him announce to the world that he’s a dem (or non-maga republican) and he wanted to prove to conservative voters that they need to start doing a much better job with who the elect since they voted for someone that lied about literally every aspect of their life. He could even take it a step further and make a list of all the horrible things republicans have slipped under the radar while everyone was too busy watching him to notice. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/466 "2023-01-25T20:42:25Z")
“And you’ll never _believe_ what Kevin McCarthy promised me if I supported him for Speaker…!” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/467 "2023-01-26T01:11:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Just so long as Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t play him. Who should play him is the guy who played Harold on the Red Green Show. We’re seeing what we already knew- there is no depth to which Republicans won’t stoop, there is no principle that they stand for other than maintaining power, there is no honor in this den of vipers, and we’re living in an age where truth simply does not matter. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/468 "2023-01-26T03:24:37Z")
Except that he has pulled too many pretty shitty stunts to get away with “I was secretly a good guy the whole time!”. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/469 "2023-01-26T14:31:53Z")
Assuming he accepts that he’s doomed to ineffectiveness and never being taken seriously again, I wonder if he could extend his career by declaring himself a Democrat, caucusing and voting with the Dems, and weakening McCarthy’s hold on the GOP a little more. Dems would stop campaigning against him, at least with the virulence they’ve been, and then the GOPers would all denounce him, opening themselves up to accusations of blatant hypocrisy. It might be a funny spectacle for a year or more. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/470 "2023-01-26T14:59:56Z")
Sure, that seems likely. Meanwhile, back in this universe… [George Santos Shows Early Signs of Tilting to the Hard Right](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/george-santos-far-right-staff.html?searchResultPosition=12) > Through his staff hires and his public appearances with members of the House Freedom Caucus, Representative George Santos has signaled a move away from the mainstream. > On his first day in Congress, Representative George Santos of New York spent most of his time alone, isolated from his new colleagues. But by week’s end, he had found his place: alongside polarizing Republicans like Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, as well as members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus. > > As a growing number of fellow Republican representatives called for his resignation, Mr. Santos dug in further, appearing last week on “Bannon’s War Room,” the podcast of Stephen K. Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald J. Trump who was involved in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. > Mr. Santos’s views became the subject of further speculation after photographs of his voting for Mr. McCarthy appeared to show him making a symbol that the[Southern Poverty Law Center](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll) associated with alt-right movements. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/471 "2023-01-26T15:07:47Z")
The man executed a long con which got him a position with a 6 figure salary, and relative immunity from prosecution. … He is not going to side with the Party that he himself decided he could not con. … He is not going to side with those of his Party who are calling on him to resign. Of course he’s going to go hard right. Where else can he go? Who else wants him? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/472 "2023-01-26T15:11:57Z")
It’s all so high school. “I’ll go sit at the anarchist’s table! They’ll accept me!” ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/473 "2023-01-26T16:33:07Z")
Seems natural that he would find a place with the ones most likely to believe all the paranoid conspiracy theories that explain the lies being told about him in the media. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/474 "2023-01-27T14:24:25Z")
In other “news”: > **[George Santos' drag is actually pretty good, but could use more eyeliner and...](https://news.yahoo.com/george-santos-drag-actually-pretty-130450728.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall)** > > Jan Sport said the reported drag persona of Rep. George Santos, Kitara Ravache, is actually pretty impressive for an early attempt at drag. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/475 "2023-01-27T14:37:30Z")
Why didn’t he talk that up on his resume? Couldn’t have hurt! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/476 "2023-01-27T15:12:45Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’d love to see him announce to the world that he’s a dem > [@slicedalone](#): > > Assuming he accepts that he’s doomed to ineffectiveness and never being taken seriously again, I wonder if he could extend his career by declaring himself a Democrat, caucusing and voting with the Dems, and weakening McCarthy’s hold on the GOP a little more. Dems would stop campaigning against him, at least with the virulence they’ve been, and then the GOPers would all denounce him, opening themselves up to accusations of blatant hypocrisy. It might be a funny spectacle for a year or more. Santos would never survive as a Democrat. The Republicans will overlook anything for a fellow Republican. But the Democrats actually have standards they expect other Democrats to comply with. Look at people like Al Franken, Andrew Cuomo, John Kitzhaber, Anthony Weiner, and Eliot Spitzer. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/477 "2023-01-27T15:43:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Santos would never survive as a Democrat. Oh, I’m not talking about long-term survival. But if the Dems had a sense of humor, and he were feeling resentful of the lack of support from his GOP peers (refusing to support or fund him for re-election, and so on), he could simply announce his caucusing with the Dems unilaterally which would be a kind of revenge on McCarthy for not whipping up enough enthusiasm for him among the GOP. Either way, he’s dead in the water politically–I just think this would be a funny turn. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/478 "2023-01-28T03:02:29Z")
Pulling spiteful crap like that, while ignoring the real harm he has done to real human beings, is Republican humor, not Democrat humor. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/479 "2023-01-28T06:40:07Z")
DOJ: I got this. > **[DOJ Signals Launch Of George Santos Criminal Probe After Telling FEC To Stand...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice-department-fec-stand-down-cgeorge-santos-criminal-probe_n_63d46d6de4b01e92886af935)** > > The request indicates an "active criminal investigation" by the Justice Department, a campaign finance lawyer told The Washington Post. > [@](#): > > The DOJ back-off request “indicates there’s an [active criminal investigation](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/27/santos-doj-investigation-fec/),” campaign finance lawyer Brett Kappel told the Post. David Mason, a former FEC commissioner, told the newspaper: “They don’t want two sets of investigators tripping over each other. And they don’t want anything that the FEC, which is a civil agency, does to potentially complicate their criminal case.” Hopefully the DOJ won’t make this investigation too protracted a thing. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188/480 "2023-01-28T06:51:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Hopefully the DOJ won’t make this investigation too protracted a thing. If the quality of concealment for Santos’ financial chicanery is as good as their excuses for their ‘shading the truth’, well, we may hope for a quick investigation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-george-santos-resume-not-an-election-issue/977188.md?page=25)