Though ousted congressman George Santos lately claimed that he is making $80,000 a day by way of his new video messaging enterprise, it seems that the serial fabulist and alleged federal legal hasn’t forgotten that a few of his followers cannot afford the $500 he fees for a customized piece of content material. The disgraced New Yorker continues to have an lively selfie-based presence on X (previously Twitter), the place he most lately did what all of us do on X this time of 12 months: He ranted in regards to the indignities of air journey.
But in Santos’s case, his beef wasn’t with delays or a stale packet of complimentary Sun Chips,. Instead, he started with the “nightmare” he experiences when his identify is badly displayed on his boarding cross.
“So, like everyone knows, I’m a big Delta Airlines guy,” Santos begins. “But after this new revelation that people literally with no name, no ID is printed and allowed on their boarding pass—meanwhile, because my name is long, George Anthony Devolder Santos, that if–God forbid–it’s not in the format on how I registered my SkyMiles, and it’s just ‘George Santos,’ it becomes a mismatch, it’s a nightmare.”
Addressing Delta’s CEO, Santos continued, “I want to ask Ed Bastian, somebody who up until recently I thought was a pretty good CEO, handled COVID well, did very good with his employees, what gives, Ed? You have a very good reputation as one of the airline CEOs, but this is bullshit.”
“This is bullshit” is probably going what you are pondering at this level, however not for the rationale Santos appears to mean. His complicated remarks, the Daily Beast surmises, are a reiteration of claims made by right-wing commentator Ashley St. Clair that migrants to the US journey on Delta flights. (As famous by the Daily Mail, these claims haven’t been confirmed.)
“How ‘bout you tell us how many people you’ve transported below this ‘no name, no ID given.’ And why is TSA allowing undocumented, unidentified people to travel alongside us in airlines? This is a fucking crime. Who is going to do something?”
Santos appears unaware of the irony that a person who faces 23 criminal counts of crimes like wire fraud and conspiracy is now claiming that the transport of passengers is “a fucking crime.” Then again, has he ever seemed like he is in on the joke?
After calling Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (the Republican who formally launched the decision to expel Santos) a “meatball” (I’ll admit it, I laughed), Santos actually wound himself up, saying “Congress is a joke, security is a joke, our Homeland Security is falling apart.”
“We need to revamp all, not just some, but all of government at this point,” Santos mentioned, abruptly ending the video
While it is unlikely Santos could have a spot within the present, or any kind of revamped authorities (however who is aware of!), we actually have not heard the final of him. Though he has claimed he’s harmless of the federal fees he faces, current court docket filings counsel a plea deal is within the works.
Until then, his monied followers will nonetheless have Cameo—the place Santos will, blessedly, learn a script penned by the purchaser. The remainder of us should accept X, the place Santos is unlikely to be banned, and his impromptu messages from the center will probably be introduced simply as coherently because the one we noticed this week.