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Wait, wasn't that already on Santos' resume; speaker of the house in 2024?
Selecting people for a job who are diametrically opposed to the basic functions of that job.  The traditional Republican way. >

We culturally just need to start being more strict with these kinds of things. It's absolutely ridiculous that stuff like this goes unpunished, and the defense is always like "Technically, there isn't specifically a rule that says dogs can't play basketball!". Fuck that, in older republics/democracies clearly violating the spirit of the law would get your hands nailed to a wall, even if it was technically legal to do so.
Hiring people to sabotage an officially created government position could easily be considered defrauding the US or any other number of charges. But we're too wussy to do that. >

Right? We get so caught up in the details and whether it' legal or not we lost sight of whether it's fucking OK or not in general >

Which is why hearing Kevin talking about George Santos is so infuriating. "Has he been charged with a crime? In America we have this little thing called innocent until proven guilty."
Two things, you smarmy piece of shit.
One, this isn't a court of law. You're speaker of the House of Representatives (at least in name), and you can expel him for any reason you can get 2/3 of the House to vote for. It's in this little thing called the Constitution. It's before the 2nd amendment though, so you may not have seen it. I think you can count on the Democrats to vote to expel.
And two, do you understand that you're saying it's ok to completely lie about (checks notes) EVERYTHING as long as nobody can charge you with a crime? Have some fucking standards.
But the truth is they need that seat, and they'd probably lose to the Democrats in a special election. So, like usual, they try to come up with some plausible sounding justification for doing whatever they want instead of being guided by morals and principles that could potentially lead to something that isn't to their advantage. >

McCarthy is probably just worried Santos is a better liar than him and is gonna steal his speaker of the house job 🤗