Date: November 01, 2023
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“Republicans in Congress put forth a motion to expel Republican Representative George Santos last week, and the motion will come to a vote on the floor at some point this week. In response to the motion, Santos sent out a cryptic and creepy message on social media that left both his critics and supporters begging him to seek help. The vote this week also places enormous pressure on new House Speaker Mike Johnson. There’s a lot at stake with this simple maneuver, as Farron Cousins explains.
Citation:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-republicans-offer-motion-to-expel-george-santos-from-congress
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Late last week, Republicans, as part of the New York delegation in Congress, put forth a motion to expel Republican, congressmen indicted Republican Congressmen, George Santos from Congress. Altogether you’re gone, these Republicans say, and of course, because they have now forced the motion, it will be voted on this week. Don’t know if it’s today, don’t know if it’s, you know, end of the day Friday, but it will be voted on this week. Now, following these Republicans, putting forth this motion to expel Santos, who, for the record, as we all know, has not been convicted of all of the horrible things that he’s been indicted for, but he has been indicted. And you know, the trial will happen, and then we’ll see if he’s convicted or not. But Republicans say, enough is enough. We’ve got a lot of problems as a party right now. We don’t need this hanging over our heads. So after they introduced this motion, I believe it was Thursday, late late in the day, uh, George Santos gets on Twitter and sends out a very creepy and cryptic message that actually caused both his critics and his supporters to reach out to him for support, like trying to help him because he said, quote, everything has an end in life.
Everything has an end in life. Now that’s a statement that can mean many different things to many different people. And based on the reactions that we saw on social media, a lot of people think this meant that George Santos was about to engage in some form of, of harming himself. Uh, so again, even people who like loathe him were reaching out saying like, dude, don’t, don’t do anything. Like don’t do this. Let’s get you help. Which I is the correct response in that situation. By the way, doesn’t matter if you love him or hate him, doesn’t matter if they’re indicted or not, that is the correct response. And I was really actually kind of happy to see the responses to this. It’s cryptic message. I, I, I think, uh, mental help is definitely something that needs to be on the agenda for George Santos. Um, especially with what he is going through, you know, I do just as a human being. He, he may be a lying scumbag, but you know, this has gotta be tough on him too. So he needs help. I think this, this post on social media was a call for help. Maybe it was just an intention grabbing stunt, right? George Staton has been known for that. Maybe he just wanted the attention, maybe he just wanted people to, you know, act like they loved him. I don’t know. Either way, real, not real. He needs help. Having said that, the vote this week
Kind of sets up a pretty big first test for newly minted Republican House speaker Mike Johnson, right? You only have a 10 seat Republican advantage, which means, of course, whenever you get five Republicans that don’t vote with the rest of them, you gotta stalemate. So losing one of those 10, taking you down to nine, that hurts. So maybe Johnson pushes this, maybe he rallies the rest of the Republicans and says, Hey, we can’t do it. We, we, we need him as corrupt as he is accused of being, and it’s just accused not convicted. We can’t do this. Besides, he is only accused, he may not get convicted. Are we really gonna set the precedent that anytime somebody’s accused of something, we just kick him out immediately? Or Johnson could recognize, as the New York delegation does that Santos is an albatross hanging around the neck of every single Republican in that body.
Because if you do not kick him out, if you vote to save him and then he is convicted, you’re all gonna look pretty dumb and it’s all gonna come back and haunt you. And not to mention y’all then definitely lose that seat in next year’s election.”
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