Ah, GOP Hypocrisy

 

If there is one thing humans are good at its being hypocrites. I know I’ve been guilty of it from time to time, though I would qualify that by saying my instances of hypocrisy are relatively minor. It’s not like I’m in charge of governmental policy that affects thousands to millions of people. When it comes to hypocrisy political parties take the cake, especially the GOP.

 

Yes, Democrats are guilty of hypocrisy from time to time – the further-Left elements are all for equality as long as you’re not white – but for the most part Democrats are not malicious when they do their about-faces. Remember that Democrats are merely dumb whereas the GOP is actually mean. For instance, the GOP went into an uproar over SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s supposed leniency on pedophiles yet the same people have absolutely nothing to say about Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Jim Jordan, Trump being on Epstein’s flight manifests, or the Tennessee bill currently being advanced that would legalize children getting married. As political analyst Brian Tyler Cohen put it on Twitter, "Literally the same week Republicans are desperately trying to label everyone else pedophiles and groomers the Tennessee GOP is advancing a bill that would literally legalize child marriage. Truly beyond parody.” I wish I could say it ends there but it does not.

 

Hunter Biden’s laptop is a hot topic with the GOP right now, the allegations being Hunter Biden used his father’s influence to land a cushy job with a foreign government, sold access to his father, made some questionable tax payments, and had salacious personal material on it. How is any of this a bigger deal than the Trump kids using government influence to rake in almost a billion dollars while government advisors, Trump’s missing tax returns (and proven instances of business and charity fraud), or Trump’s infidelities? “You know what wasn’t on Hunter’s laptop? 15 boxes of classified and top-secret documents. That shit was at Mar-A-Lago,” tweeted Andrea Junker in reference to the documents Trump stole when he left office.

 

The GOP also claims to be the party of ‘law-and-order,’ though that appears to not really mean anything. At last count, at least 11 Trump Administration advisors had been arrested in connection with criminal activity, to say nothing of the hundreds of QAnon supporters arrested during the J6 riot that was incited by the Trump Administration itself. Not coincidently, the father of the woman who stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop on J6 has been arrested for – you guessed it – child pornography. The GOP doesn’t seem to realize if Joe Biden is guilty by association with his son, then…

 

Oh, and hey, remember when Moscow Mitch McConnell denied Obama a SCOTUS nominee because it was ten months before the next presidential election but then rammed conservative Amy Coney Barrett through less than a month before the 2020 election?

 

To be fair, the GOP isn’t always hypocritical. More and more they’ve been showing their true colors and being outright racist as in the case of Ohio Republican senate candidate JD Vance, the “Do you hate Mexicans?” candidate who apparently blames Mexicans for his mother’s opioid addiction, nevermind that the drugs were prescribed by American doctors. Oh, and remember how much the GOP hates ‘cancel culture’? But what are they doing but calling on Disney to be cancelled for opposing DeSantis’ attack on the LGBTQ community? They also want to cancel workers rights, voting rights, and marriage rights. The GOP also wants to protect children, by not doing anything about school shootings.

 

Again, I’m not going to say I’m not a hypocrite from time to time. We’re all hypocrites. It’s just that some people love it and are better at it than others. Why? The human animal isn’t exactly the most reasonable thing around. So, if you’re going to be a hypocrite, at least admit to it least you be a hypocrite about being a hypocrite. That’s a sign of a mental health problem, meaning you’re bat-shit crazy. It appears the GOP has no problem with that.