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as crazy as the world seems and uh she do seem crazy
it's comforting every so often to be reminded that actions still have consequences and even
when those consequences are awful it's nice to know you weren't crazy when you pointed out
those consequences were careening down the highway toward all of us like a jackknife manure spreader
case in point for years the GOP said nothing while the former president told over 30
000 verifiable lies that's 20 lies a day I don't always get in 20 steps a day
so no one should be surprised when that party is the party that produces newly elected
representative George Santos [Applause] seen here asking are you there God it's me LL Cool J
we already knew we already knew Santos lied about attending Baruch College and being on
the volleyball team but recently a a radio clip that had surfaced from 2020 demonstrates just
how much Santos loves spreading his lies he does it with the real Joy deceive when I was in blue
we were the number one volleyball did you graduate from there yeah so did I I did so did I oh very
cool great school great institution very visible but very good very good professors oh yeah yeah
a great great great school great professors Dumbledore McGonagall the uh The Nutty uh
uh Santos continued to fabricate telling a story with a sad made-up ending we went to play against
Harvard Yale and we slay them we were Champions across the entire Northeast Corridor every school
that came up against us they were shaking at the time look I sacrificed both my knees and
got very nice knee replacement knee Replacements from HSS playing volleyball that's how serious I
took the game it's true doctors say one of the most dangerous sports is imaginary volleyball
but Santos I mean to play injury to pretend to play injuries that's all hard
but Santos didn't stop with the BS and Bs in a recently Unearthed 2020 podcast Santos
bragged about graduating from NYU with an MBA if you want to learn more about
his inspiring time in grad school you can read his Memoir I am Malala
never get tired of those I just never get tired of those jokes here's Santos's inspiring message on
the show I put myself through college and got an MBA from NYU and I have zero debt it's hard work
you got to do it it is it's a lot of hard work you try getting a graduate degree with no knees
hold on I'm coming I'm late for class I'm coming I'm coming
he ended the interview with a powerful message to the youth nothing comes for
free Nothing in life is free and the harder you work for something the more you want it
and the more you want it the more rewarding it is I hate looking at you today and seeing them
sitting on their behinds and acting like you know oh this is so hard yeah you lazy youth
how many accomplishments did you make up today one two George Santos tells 10 lies before breakfast
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there you go you think it's easy kiting checks and keeping track of which sport you pretended to play
which college you pretended to attend no but you got to dig down like George did so he could make
his parents proud his sweet sweet parents Rosa Parks and the Fiddler on the Roof both of home
is this on both of home we're strangled by Hitler on the shores of Iwo Jima save the meiwa of course
oh is this mic upside down is the mic website it is
Mike's upside down there you go there you go hello hello
I love it when I do that up in the booth of course uh in all of that Santos was just emulating the
former president the leader of the GOP who was defended repeatedly by his party and rewarded
for all of his lies but don't take my word for it listen to what Santo said after losing his
first run for Congress here he is on January 5th of 2021 at a stop the steel rally they
did to me what they did to Donald J Trump they stole my election and he knows stealing when he
sees it because and this is true he made that speech in a scarf he stole from his roommates
so it's a metaphor this scarf is a metaphor [Applause] so he says that on January 5th January
6th of course there's a violent Insurrection up the Capitol and since that day the majority of
Republican politicians in America have supported the former president's big lie all across this
country why simultaneously making it easier and easier to get guns without a license which is why
logically all of that would have this consequence yesterday in New Mexico a former 2022 Republican
candidate who believes his election was stolen was arrested in shootings at Democrats homes his
name is Solomon Pena seen here being taken into custody by Ben Affleck and that guy from Reno 911
keep in mind thank you for your service keep in mind Pena claims his race was stolen by the
incumbent Democrat even though he lost by 48 points that's a pretty decisive win those are
the kind of numbers you see usually only when the Kansas City Chiefs go up against the Golden Girls
people police say police say thank you police say police say police say a Pena hired four
men to attack the Democrats and he sent them text messages with addresses where
he wanted them to shoot up the homes making him the plots Mastermind because nothing says
Mastermind like leaving an incandescent trail of digital evidence I am texting you all the
details of the illegal crime we are criming also what's your venmo I'll pay you with a memo crazy
face explosion now on three everyone licked their fingers and put their thumbs on the gun
I don't know turns out no surprise no surprise Pena was a January 6th attendee and had been
convicted of felonies that include burglary larceny receiving stolen property and contributing
to the delinquency of a minor so evidently at this point no one is vetting GOP candidates for office
I look forward to 2024 Presidential nominee Buffalo Bill
you know his slogan it puts the ballot in the Box of course to get
of course to get that nomination Buffalo Bill is going to have to be the host of other GOP
crazy candidates for instance Florida governor and kid watching Mom and Dad
bring home his new baby brother Ron DeSantis in recent polls of GOP voters DeSantis has
a lead over the former president but he's missing one thing insiders say that for all
of his smarts and shrewdness he lacks charm oh come on you're telling me this man lacks charm
he's got the smooth style of a non-playable character on a PlayStation 2 game get hey hey
get out of my bank with your skateboard Tony Hawk
apparently DeSantis is turning off Republican donors because he has an aversion to schmoozing
as one Florida political leader describe the feelings donors have when they actually meet
the candidate Ron is at his best on paper then you meet him and you say oh my gosh
it's true it's true DeSantis is best on paper specifically that roll by the toilet
in lighter news hold your folder [Music] in lighter news the Taliban they've been making
headlines this week after they started buying blue check marks on Twitter that is not good
I don't want that now Twitter might be full of awful men saying terrible things about women
so far yeah yeah so far at least two Taliban leaders have taken Elon Musk
up on his offer to pay eight dollars a month for verification including the head
of the taliban's department for access to information you know their motto no
no if you think giving a terrorist organization official status on Twitter is a little shady
you're not alone there was a huge backlash leading to the Twitter verified check marks bought by
the Taliban being removed well great now we won't know if they're really the ones sending the awful
tweets A Woman's Place is in the home obedient to her husband is that the Taliban at San molito
we got a great show
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