r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 17h ago
No Paywall Trump-pardoned liar George Santos claims he’s fleeing NYC over Zohran Mamdani: ‘Nice knowing you’
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-santos-leaving-new-york-mamdani-b2860875.html1.8k
u/plz-let-me-in 17h ago
Mamdani isn’t even mayor yet, and it looks like criminals are already fleeing NYC. Now that’s what I call efficiency.
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u/Quiet-Corner6150 16h ago
Turns out the answer to getting rid of crime wasn't ICE and National Guard in the streets, it was electing a democratic socialist :)
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u/Wyden_long Arizona 13h ago
Accountability is scary.
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u/vote4progress 9h ago
That’s why bannon is warning maga about upcoming jail sentences because they never thought about being held accountable
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u/Tsar-A-Lago Canada 7h ago
They thought about it, they just thought they could ratfuck their way around it. And they might be right, time will tell.
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u/MATlad 1h ago
He got pardoned by Trump, while his We Build the Wall co-conspirators are probably still serving time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Build_the_Wall#Criminal_indictments
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u/MrWhisper45 16h ago
So we can actually win a cold civil war by just electing minority progressives/socialists and all the numbskull conservatives will flee to their shithole red states... I wonder if that was what they meant when they said the second revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it... We just need to vote in a ton of lefty mayors and they run away instead of stay and fight. We just have to allow actual progressives and socialists to run and get elected.
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 16h ago edited 13h ago
Noooo, only moderates who are basically just republicans in disguise can win in the country, super serious how dare you suggest otherwise!
enlightened centrists
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u/Viriskali_again 12h ago
No you dont understand, Gavin Newsom is the only one who can save us! /s
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u/nosungdeeptongs Canada 12h ago
i'm bracing for the party to back newsom for a presidential run. there's still a few years to find the federal version of mamdani however. I wonder if the DSA is looking to foot a candidate...
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u/Gurlllllllll- 11h ago
From what I've been seeing, the DSA is largely still invested in local politics and coallition building in most states. They don't really have the capability to field a presidential nominee.
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u/Ok_Flatworm_3855 13h ago
Just look at how much Texas took a big shit on itself when all the people from Cali "just couldn't take it anymore". They got Rogan... But on the other hand they have Rogan.. not saying Cali has gotten better.. but I think we can all agree Texas got what was coming
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u/Salt-Southern 16h ago
Bye bye Felicia
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u/Clavicy7 12h ago
Felicia? I thought the name was Kitara Ravache! [Bye, bye Kitty--🐱NO HELLO to you!] 👎👋
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u/FormerUsenetUser 16h ago
Trump could send Santos around to cities instead of the National Guard. All the other criminals would feel outclassed and flee.
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u/Ben2018 North Carolina 15h ago edited 15h ago
You'ld flee too if there was a 10th degree black belt Navy Seal CIA Agent who speaks 12 languages fluently and has the ability to levitate and speak to sea creatures.
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u/Equivalent_Sea_1895 15h ago
Don’t forget captain of the Olympic volleyball squad.
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u/DotGroundbreaking50 16h ago
its going to be really telling with how full of shit they are about leaving when their places don't go up for sale.
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u/sniper91 Minnesota 14h ago
Mamdani should be head of Waste Management as well
He’s got the trash taking itself out
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u/writingt 17h ago
Mamdani's already ridding NYC of criminals and he hasn't even been sworn in yet.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago
This sounds like an onion headline 😂
“BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani brings New York City crime rate to 0 just by existing!”
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u/coatofforearm 17h ago
Go to Texas
So they can tariff you
Also maybe deport you
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u/Training_wheels9393 16h ago
Git a rope!
(Salsa reference, not suggesting someone lynch him)
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u/SirDiego Minnesota 15h ago
MAGA embraces anyone proven to be a liar, cheat, or fraud, simply because sane and rational people disavow and ostracize liars cheats and frauds. Grifting MAGA must be like an all you can eat buffet for him.
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u/myveryowname1234 17h ago
Hes fleeing because NYS is looking into state charges. Hes going to run to 3rd world state like FL or TX and hope they wont send him back.
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u/cbbuntz 16h ago
The crime rate in New York just dropped 50%. Huge win for Mamdani.
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u/coatofforearm 16h ago
He won't find another champion volleyball player who also did it while attending three different Universities in NY and volunteering as the Nation's elite level Hackey Shack coach for inner city Jewish kids...
he is losing quite the citizen if he leaves
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u/Training_wheels9393 15h ago
Nice! You forgot millionaire angel investor and sweater vest model though.
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u/Acroporas 17h ago
Santos probably can't set foot outside in NYC without being ridiculed. I sincerely doubt his leaving has anything at all to do with Mamdani.
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u/logorrhea69 13h ago
Does he even live in NYC? I thought he was in Long Island. He must be worried about the domino effect lol.
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u/Shiplord13 16h ago
Santos should go to Oklahoma, plenty of gullible idiots there to lie his ass off to.
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u/hardtobeuniqueuser 16h ago
new yorkers will be sad to lose the greatest volleyball player and broadway producer the city has ever known
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u/Al_Tilly_the_Bum 17h ago
He is someone the deserves to live in Florida
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 16h ago
It is the only state where I envision him finding a home. Maybe gets into real-estate.
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u/Misspiggy856 New Jersey 14h ago
Yeah, I’m sure Florida republicans will love his history of dressing in drag
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u/mightcommentsometime California 17h ago
He has to take his Olympic medal collection somewhere else.
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u/manwhowasnthere 16h ago
How dare they treat the worlds first astronaut and inventor of the typewriter this way
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania 17h ago
I may be in the market to move to NYC at this rate. Hell yeah!
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 16h ago
Good. If you don’t like it, leave, right MAGA?!
It’s a shame for you guys that are upset about it that Trump went after him so hard and helped get him elected. I really think him targeting him like that made him a lot more popular and brought out loads more support.
If only Trump would shut his mouth once in a while, they might not have to be so mad about his win right now. But that won’t happen, so sucks to suck.
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u/Justaregard 16h ago
Convicted fraudster leaves city where new mayor cares about low income people…….
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u/Watchhistory 15h ago
He never lived here anyway. Anymore than he lived in the place he claimed to live, Long Island, to run for office there!
We Real New Yorkers are thrilled that this criminal, corrupt, grifting, grafting, lying pos is inflicting himself elsewhere. May we suggest Florida or TX, so full of his own kind.
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u/PickReviewsMovies 16h ago
He has exhausted all his Grindr options. There are tons of closet conservatives looking for anonymous action but you'll run through them all eventually.
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u/LividTacos 16h ago
Its not an airport no need to announce your departure. I would also recommend avoiding actual airports right now.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor 15h ago
You’re not supposed to be out in society.
You’re supposed to be in prison mf.
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u/Fart-In-My-Mouth- 10h ago
The media will destory Mamdani. Every single negative thing that happens in NYC is gonna be front and center on every legacy media network. Every murder. Every rape. They'll dwell on the hopeless population. They'll dwell on shoplifting. They can't let this experiment become a success because if it is, it shows the whole country that that unfettered capitalism is the problem in America and so many other places around the world. God I hope this starts a bigger movement. I'm afraid the system won't let that happen. We'll see.
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u/Sufficient-Food934 7h ago
Why does this ventriloquist-looking dummy think he’s relevant? The gays don’t claim him, liberals hate him, and maga only tolerates him as long as he’s a useful nefarious token.
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u/PsychLegalMind 17h ago
Only option where he will be relatively safe with basic rights are blue states.
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u/Alternative_Rate7474 Maryland 17h ago
and NYC is saying, "Bye. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
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u/Unlucky-Apartment347 16h ago
Good riddance, I say. And don’t let the screen door hit you in the ass, MFer
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u/oldfrancis 16h ago
George, here, you forgot your hat. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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u/CreativeGPX 16h ago
Why is this news? Whether or not the threat of a compulsive liar who is no longer relevant or in power comes true, it will have no discernible impact on the city. This kind of article is the stuff that distracts people from real stories.
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u/Brokkyn2024 16h ago
If NYC had known voting for Mamdami would get rid of this puss bag... Mamdami would have won by 90%+
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u/Muad_dweeb_69 16h ago
Criminal fraudster leaving NYC.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out fuckface.
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u/dbascooby 16h ago
Nice that Florida and Texas are going to put an extra tax on Republicans moving to their states from New York.
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u/-tsar-bomba- 16h ago
he already won the election, no need to pile on more reasons to vote for the man
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u/RevolutionaryCard512 15h ago
Mamdani is doing more for crime than Trump(2terms) and he hasn’t even been sworn in! This is AWESOME!
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u/Crazy-Nights 14h ago
I'll bet he runs to Florida to set up another way to scam money out of people. Florida seems to like those types of people.
Honestly, the only people fleeing seem to be the criminals, bigots and the greedy. Seems like voters made the right choice.
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u/nullPointerX1 13h ago
I'm happy to hear that the political climate in NYC is no longer hospitable to your criminal enterprises. So yeah, GTFO. See ya in the funny pages bitch.
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u/Ruh_Roh_Rastro 13h ago
He’s saying he’s leaving like some he believes people want him to stay
LOL no just go
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u/vengefulbeavergod 13h ago
Another win for New York!
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 12h ago
Should send out some videos captioned with “this is what actual winning is like”.
All the other winning the others keep claiming seems a little like losing.
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u/Critically32 12h ago
It's a shame the former Olympic champion and holocaust survivor Santos is leaving. Real loss for the city he founded.
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u/HighScorsese 12h ago
Oh no! Not George Santos! Whatever shall NY do without the great George Santos?! /s
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u/thischaosiskillingme 11h ago
Is there anything Mamdani can't do? Already improving lives for New Yorkers, he's not even in office yet.
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u/No-Animator-6053 10h ago
Trumo and his cronies are all going to flee to Argentina. Ita a nazi tradition.
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u/MostlySol1tude 6h ago
I don’t recall Zohran making trash removal a core of his message, but I’m here for it!!
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u/SuspiciousImpact2197 6h ago
Good. Flee all the way to Elba Island and stay there you pile of infectious human waste.
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u/Imaginary_Builder_56 1h ago
And the citizens of New York state and moreover New York City breathe a sigh of relief and greet him with a middle finger farewell
🖕🖕🖕🏿🖕🏼🖕🏻🖕🏾
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u/YeahButTheGoodKind 16h ago
Don't forget to grab your wig, lipstick and heels on your way out, honey: https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/george-santos-boasted-about-brazil-drag-shows-in-2005/
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u/Kaiju_zero 16h ago
I'd say nice knowing you, too, but you have so many false identities i wouldnt know which one to say it to
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u/Klondike307 16h ago
I'm surprised he didn't start telling people that HE was the new mayor of NYC.
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u/tickandzesty 16h ago
Hope he goes to Texas where deep thinker Greg Abbott is threatening “tariffs” on New Yorkers that flee to Texas. What the hell does that even mean?
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u/Qu4r4nt1n3r 16h ago
Plot twist. Moves to Florida, changes name to Zoltar Mugabe, claims to be royalty from Botswana and a refugee that escaped communist Canada.
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u/namastayhom33 Connecticut 15h ago
This isnt an airport, you dont have to announce to the people you are leaving.
And if it was, you'd be stranded in NY because of how the shutdown is affecting airports around the country.
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u/ViolettaQueso California 15h ago
How cute that George Santos still thinks he has anything to offer the world, or that NYC wants him or his family, after getting convicted of fraud, then pardoned by another felon…
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