GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[TrueNorth]

This fucking guy

Ian Kennedy

[goofy]

Santos!

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1614971342025068545

George Santos, the freshman Republican congressman from New York who lied about his biography, has deeper ties than previously known to a businessman who cultivated close links with a onetime Trump confidant and who is the cousin of a sanctioned Russian oligarch, according to video footage and court documents.

Andrew Intrater and his wife each gave the maximum $5,800 to Santos’ main campaign committee and tens of thousands more since 2020 to committees linked to him, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Intrater’s cousin is Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for his role in the Russian energy industry.

The relationship between Santos and Intrater goes beyond campaign contributions, according to a statement made privately by Santos in 2020 and a court filing the following year in a lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against a Florida-based investment firm, Harbor City Capital, where Santos worked for more than a year.

Taken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.

While Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.

@Jman220

It’s going to turn out he’s like an actual Russian Spy, right? Like we’ve got to be drawing live to that at this point.

[eyebooger]

LOL Democrats.

Just embarrassing incompetence to not find out/broadcast any of this before the election.

[otatop]

@otatop

Shootings Reported at Homes and Offices of 5 New Mexico Democrats - The New York Times

Not confirmed GOP insanity yet but seems likely.

Confirmed
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1615149532769140737

Just a few days ago he was lamenting a potential law banning 10+ round magazines
https://twitter.com/Lord4NM/status/1612823759274266625
https://twitter.com/SolomonPena2022/status/1612875551642902528

[Jman220]

Jesus Christ.

[Jman220]

Yep. Definitely still drawing live to that.

[Spinetta]

On Jan. 3, shots rang out at state Rep. Linda Lopez’s home and three bullets went through her daughter’s bedroom as the 10-year-old slept

Pena’s candidacy came under scrutiny over the summer when Garcia filed a court challenge to disqualify him because he had been convicted in 2008 of stealing large amounts of goods from several big box retail stores in a reported “smash and grab” scheme.

Pena served nearly seven years in prison

Who could have seen that coming?

[VoteForSocialists]

Santos' former roommate: He had 'delusions of grandeur' | CNN Politics

insanity isn’t even broad enough to contain everything that is wrong with gop candidates. sure, delusions of grandeur, internal drama, and violent religiosity could all fit here, but where does the grift and oppression go?

[goofy]

Santos!

Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe

In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of Route 9 in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved service dog Sapphire. A veteran’s charity gave the pit mix to Osthoff, a disabled veteran who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2002, he told Patch.

When Sapphire developed a life-threatening stomach tumor, Osthoff, now 47, learned the surgery would cost $3,000. A veterinary technician took Osthoff aside and told him, “‘I know a guy who runs a pet charity who can help you,’” Osthoff recounted.

His name was Anthony Devolder, and his pet charity was called Friends of Pets United, the vet tech told him.

Anthony Devolder is one of the names that Long Island Rep. George Santos used for years before entering politics in 2020.

Osthoff and another New Jersey veteran, retired police Sgt. Michael Boll, who tried to intervene to help Osthoff in 2016, told Patch that Santos closed the GoFundMe he set up for Sapphire after it raised $3,000 on social media and disappeared.

“He stopped answering my texts and calls,” Osthoff said.

Sapphire died Jan. 15, 2017. After being out of work with a broken leg for over a year, Osthoff couldn’t afford the dog’s euthanasia and cremation, he said.

He had one final phone conversation with Santos, who said that because Osthoff “didn’t do things my way,” he put the GoFundMe money from Sapphire’s fundraiser into the charity to use “for other dogs.”

Is this true? I have no idea! At this point you could tell me anything about this guy and I’d be like “yeah, that’s wild but definitely in his range”.

[riverman]

[pvn]

It’s hilarious that McCarthy has to keep soft defending this guy so he doesn’t get booted out of his job, A+++++++

[pvn]

Is it possible that democrats actually knew everything and wanted this guy to win just so they could keep him in the news for 2 years straight? It seems like they will never run out of material

[McTrollson]

This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. I’m not even mad.

[skydiver8]

I kind of feel bad for the Onion because “stealing money from a disabled veteran and his dying service dog” is serious cartoon villain-level shit.

Like, this has to be true because you cannot make up anything so hyperbolically evil.

[CaffeineNeeded]

The parody here is some feel good story about santos actually helping orphans

[Danspartan]

More fodder for the movie. Leo starring?

[commonWealth]

Christopher Mathias

[pvn]

Jim Swift

Biden should make some public statements about seat belt laws, tobacco bans, etc. See how dumb of a position he can get these dipshits to take. Honestly I really think if he just off the cuff said something like “I don’t think kids should eat tide pods” we might see a bunch of deplorables chow down on them.

[commonWealth]

@pvn

Biden should make some public statements about seat belt laws, tobacco bans, etc. See how dumb of a position he can get these dipshits to take.

They should definitely be workshopping ideas to get the GOP to reflexively take absurdly dumb positions. That said, the problem is that most casual observers of the news and low information voters don’t believe that one of the two major parties could actually be dumb enough to do the shit they say they’re going to do.

I mean, my father currently relies on Social Security and Medicare, voted for the GOP in 2022, and doesn’t believe they’ll actually try to cut either one of those.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Uhhhhh

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