New Rule: Explaining George Santos | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rule well not a rule but a big thank you for all the birthday wishes today from everybody out there I really appreciate it but thank you very much but birthdays and vacations are over now and someone has to explain George Santos I someone has to explain this phenomenon in case you've been living under a rock or you live here in California and you're Rock washed away George Santos is the newly elected Republican House member from Long Island who pinocchioed his way into Congress and who represents a growing segment of American society Liars now if you're sort of hazy on the details of Santos's life don't worry so is he [Applause] when they film his biography it'll start with based on a false story this guy lied about his schooling his career his sexuality his charity work what kind of family raises a person like this we don't know because he lied about them too all right he lies like a goose if he's not doing it at the very moment he's about to it's a man prep school they have no record of him nor does NYU where he said he got an MBA or Baruch College where he falsely claimed to have graduated in the top 100 of his class and starred on the volleyball team I would say you can't make this up but he just made this up and it and it raises a lot of questions starting with if you're gonna lie why volleyball [Laughter] [Applause] he also claimed he ran an animal charity that neutered 3 000 Stray Cats he didn't but again what a strange thing to brag about he literally lied about cutting off cat's nuts and that takes a lot of balls foreign [Applause] here's the explained part don't think Santos isn't pioneering something new in American politics of course we've seen Liars before but it was always about tacking from the extreme to the center of your own party what Mitt Romney called shaking the Etch-a-Sketch but Santos is the first one to realize that since we are all in our hermetically sealed media bubbles now you can pretend to be everything to voters in both parties and no one on either side will notice some of Santos's lies appeal to the far right far-right Republicans like being all in as he was on Trump's election denying or making the white power sign in the halls of Congress or claiming he was a Wall Street wonderkind who made Millions working in Goldman Sachs which he didn't or that he was a luxury Yacht broker which he wasn't the giveaway here is that Santos's district is Long Island New York suburb of Manhattan not as liberal but almost always went Democratic Biden won it by eight points so how did a trump-loving election denying white nationalist get elected in a democrat-leaning district simple he told them what they wanted to hear too what are liberals love identity politics and victimhood so he said he had a brain tumor and he was one of the first New Yorkers hospitalized for covid he said he lost four co-workers in the famous Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016. he's from Brazil which is overwhelmingly Catholic but when he ran in New York he said he was Jewish and in fact his grandparents fled Ukraine to escape the Nazis that's right his Jewish Ukrainian forefathers escaped the Holocaust by being born Catholic in Brazil his immigration policies we must stop people like me from getting into this country [Laughter] also he claims to be half black although I doubt that's the half that wears a blazer with the fleece vest and he's gay is since the divorce he divorced the woman he was married to two weeks before the campaign started oh yes George knows where the sweet spots are with Democrats too he once said I'm very much gay what does that mean very much gay you have a blue check mark on Grindr [Applause] everybody keeps asking how could a guy like this get elected I'll tell you how because no one cares anymore about substance it's all tribalism the only thing that matters is is he on our team is he doing arshtic Santos is just the first one to realize you could do both sides stick and get away with it because people have completely tuned out anything that doesn't already fit their narrative Republicans love a winner and Democrats love someone whose life story makes you want to kill yourself okay four Republicans George claimed he went to the Capitol on January 6. yes he personally attended the Insurrection and has tweeted hashtags like Dems are destroying America but that obviously didn't matter to plenty of Democrats in his district What mattered is that he's a brave sad proudly gay half-black Latino Holocaust victim foreign with a brain tumor vote for him I'm surprised they didn't have him host the Oscars yes everyone saw in George Santos what they wanted to see Republicans are trump-loving rich prick Democrats saw a proudly gay person of color and the proud boy saw a guy who would blow them after a couple of beers and not tell anyone

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

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Keywords: William Barr, Attorney General, Presidents George H. W. Bush, Donald Trump, NYT bestselling book, ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER, Memoirs of An Attorney General, Andrew Sullivan, blogger, The Weekly Dish on Substack and author of Out on a Limb, Selected Writing 1989 – 2021, Rep. Nancy Mace, congresswoman, South Carolina's, 1st congressional district

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Length: 7min 7sec (427 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 20 2023