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    Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
    It’s weird how republicans don’t seem to understand the difference between small lies or even one or two big lies and literally making up an entirely fictitious life history including changing one’s parents’ religion and making up two fake death stories about their mother.
    Poor dears probably got confused by all those years of Honest Joe Biden’s Multiverse of Madness.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
    Poor dears probably got confused by all those years of Honest Joe Biden’s Multiverse of Madness.
    Weird that you would say that when it’s your party whose current main policy platform is ‘the big lie’.

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    Weird that anyone is stepping forwards to defend Santos. But the sophistry of those who do is expected.

    Is Santos really the sort of person the GOP wants in their party?


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    The way things are going maybe they can make him speaker. I’m sure if anyone asked he’d claim to have done the job back during the Eisenhower administration.

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    One of my previous employers had a zero tolerance rule for lying on an employment application. One of my co-workers was fired for saying he had multiple college degrees when he had none. It was early in his employment, and possibly during a probationary period. He was a hard worker and very smart. Weird thing is that it was back in a draconian period when passing a lie detector was required and involved specific questions about lying on the job application and certain details. There must be some people who believe in their fantasy world so much it becomes reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
    One of my previous employers had a zero tolerance rule for lying on an employment application.
    This was the rule in the last few Silicon Valley companies I was at. We let go a VP once when his resume-padding surfaced a few months or so into his employment. Not sure why we would be willing to accept this sort of thing in an elected office.

    When I was in a political office here, I was required to file lots of disclosure forms before the election, and each year I was in office afterwards, with the State paperwork-pushers, and the claimed consequences for fibbing were quite dire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    This was the rule in the last few Silicon Valley companies I was at. We let go a VP once when his resume-padding surfaced a few months or so into his employment. Not sure why we would be willing to accept this sort of thing in an elected office.
    As I recall in my example it fell under the falsification of company records policies, and the thought was that if it happened on an employment application, it could happen with other critical records. It actually caused a bit of a stir because the guy was well liked and had nothing to do with his work. There are probably political comparisons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
    Weird that anyone is stepping forwards to defend Santos. But the sophistry of those who do is expected.

    Is Santos really the sort of person the GOP wants in their party?
    No he's not, and he's not the only one. The problem is he (and they) were hired by their constituents and should be fired by same.
    "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    No he's not, and he's not the only one. The problem is he (and they) were hired by their constituents and should be fired by same.
    No. For instance, Republicans did not speak ill of trump in public but did so in private. This shows they cannot be relied upon to do the right thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    No he's not, and he's not the only one.
    There are other republican representatives that lied about literally every single aspect of their lives in order to fraudulently win an election?

    Thinking about Santos (if that is in fact his name. Are we really sure he hasn't lied about that as well?) it would have been interesting to see how the spineless republicans reacted if all this had come out prior to the election. We'll never know, of course, but I suspect that they would have reacted about the same as they did when the Texan running for Georgia senate was found to have multiple kids that he pretended didn't exist and had paid for an abortion for a fetus he didn't want to add to the collection of unwanted children.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    The problem is he (and they) were hired by their constituents and should be fired by same.
    No. The problem is that the voters were lied to and made their decision based on those lies. The House of Representatives, currently (sort of) led by his party, have a duty to fix that since at this point the House are the only people who can do this according to the constitution.

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