Add this to the George Santos string of lies and deceit reported
on here from LGBQT Nation with this headline during his very first day in congress:
“Did George Santos flash a
white nationalist sign on the floor of Congress?”
Dishonest gay and serial liar just sworn into the 118th Congress, Rep. George Santos (R-NY-3 CD) seems to have made a strange hand gesture during the January 6 House floor vote and swearing in ceremony that some have accused him of flashing “the white supremacist ‘ok’ symbol.”
While raising his right hand to signal his vote in support of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for House Speaker, Santos made an “OK” hand gesture with his left hand seen the C-SPAN video and video frame above captured by Reuters and Getty Images (seen above and the video at the link above).
It’s unclear why Santos made the
gesture, but some right-wing trolls have increasingly used the “OK” symbol as a
way to signal support for white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADF). The
gesture’s three upturned fingers appear as a “W” and the circle made by the
thumb and index fingers forms a “P” shape on top of the wrist — W.P. for “white
power.”
The ADF notes that the hand gesture is still widely used to signify “OK.” But the group also noted that alt-right trolls sometimes flash the sign as a way to bait left-wingers into overreacting against it. This allows trolls to characterize anti-racists as irrationally seeing racism where none exists.
In response to Santos’ hand gesture, The Twitter account of the media
outlet The Intellectualist in fact said that Santos made a “White power gesture.”
My 2 Cents: On top of this pathological liar’s tons of lies the Nassau GOP has disowned him.
The new GOP House should expel him ASAP – thus making his term the shortest in Congressional history.
That would be best for the country and this new GOP. I say: Do it.
Thanks for
stopping by.
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