"Playbook: Santos goes off"

"SANTOS’ SWAN SONG — The end of Rep. GEORGE SANTOS’ political career is right around the corner — and last night, for the first time, the New York Republican seemed to acknowledge it.

In a three-hour rant on X Spaces, Santos lashed out at lawmakers on the House Ethics Committee and admitted that he would probably be expelled from the House after the Thanksgiving recess. Why? Because “I can do math” and count votes, he said, per
Reese Gorman at the Washington Examiner.

Santos is probably right. After the ethics panel found in mid-November that he’d used campaign money for personal expenses like Botox, spending splurges in the Hamptons and Atlantic City and even on OnlyFans, a website known for selling porn, several
Republicans who opposed previous efforts to oust him have come around. And Ethics Chair MICHAEL GUEST (R-Miss.) has now introduced another resolution to expel Santos based on the findings of his probe — though he has yet to begin the process of forcing
a vote on the matter.

But that doesn’t mean Santos is going to go quietly. In fact, we should all probably think of last night as a prelude to how Congress’ own FRANK ABAGNALE JR. will spend his final weeks in the spotlight. His X Spaces performance included accusing
lawmakers of voting while drunk (we can confirm this does often happen …) and daring Guest to file his expulsion resolution and “be a man and stop being a pussy.”

Here’s a taste: “Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of sheisty backgrounds … I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyists that
they’re going to screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on and sell off the American people. … Not show up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is, or not show up to vote at all and just give their card out
like fucking candy for someone else to vote for them. This shit happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations?”"

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/11/25/santos-goes-off-00128592

For some reason this reminds me of some cartoons that ran in Mad magazine many years ago: "Don Martin Steps Out" and "Don Martin bounces back".

https://www.amazon.com/Don-Martin-Steps-Out/dp/0451050673

I'm hoping that George has a long and happy temper tantrum. He could turn it into a career. I'll bet he can get at least one lucrative book deal and sell the movie rights as well. OTOH, even if he's telling the truth, who will believe him?

These days he could even have his own television show. I love trash TV. I recently discovered a treasure from this genre: "Love after Lockup". In a year or two George could be a star on that show. It takes trash television to a whole new level.

"Love After Lockup is a reality television series, chronicling the lives of recently released felons and their significant others. It premiered on January 12, 2018, on We TV.[1][2]"

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

The show is even worse than you can imagine. In the episode I caught the love interest, who is a plastic surgeon's nightmare/lucrative dream, talks about dating felons because ordinary guys are boring--in and out of bed. If there was a surgical
procedure for it, she had it done. Whatever the procedure was she had massively overdone it. One of her boyfriends had been recently released from prison for robbing banks. So, naturally they have to go to a bank to setup a new account. After he told her
his story the lady at the bank said they would be happy to take his money.

TB

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