George Santos’ Call to ‘Preserve the Integrity’ of the House Goes Over Exactly How You’d Expect

George Santos is less a legitimate member of Congress and more a massive collection of lies and scandals clumsily cobbled together to resemble a human form and shoved into a sweater-blazer combo. The man has been accused of/admitted to lying about everything from his “Jew-ish” heritage to the details of his college education to the very existence of his top donors. He has said his grandparents were Jewish refugees who were forced to flee the Holocaust when they very much were not. He was accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a dying dog’s GoFundMe. He lied about being a producer on the massive Broadway flop Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

So when I tell you that George Santos has taken it upon himself to call for the U.S. House of Representatives to take steps to “preserve the integrity” of that institution, you can all join me in an enormous cackle.

Similar to when Marjorie Taylor Greene had the gall to demand “decorum” in the House, Santos’ message went over exactly as you’d expect and was met with overwhelming mockery.

In case you didn’t watch Santos’ video (although I encourage you to, as it’s hilarious), its purpose is to offer public support for a resolution proposed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, an ultra-MAGA Republican. Luna motioned to officially censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for, essentially, being super mean to Donald Trump during his presidency.

Luna and her MAGA ilk succeeded in wasting everyone’s time enough to actually hold the vote Wednesday, but not in actually censuring Schiff. 20 Republicans had enough sense to cross the aisle to vote against the resolution.

Most incredibly of all, Santos—despite all his Twitter bluster—didn’t even end up supporting the resolution, choosing instead to merely vote “present.” He literally doesn’t even have the conviction to stand behind a 90-second social media video.

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.

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