politics

I've been saying this for years.

There is exactly one party that cares about hypocrisy.

And it ain't the Republicans.

The thing to remember about most Republicans (and Republican politicians especially) is that any arguments they throw out in pursuit of a particular goal only apply to that goal.

Impeachment of Trump was bad, so they said the Speaker didn't have the power, that impeachment should be only for extreme situations, that high crimes and misdemeanors means you have to break the law to be impeached, that Democrats were on a mission to impeach Trump since he was elected.

But now, impeachment of Biden is good, so the Speaker clearly has the power to initiate an inquiry, that vague, shady insinuations with no hard evidence is sufficient to impeach, that they're definitely not on a witch-hunt to impeach Biden despite investigating him from the moment they got their majority and moving forward to impeach with zero actual evidence.

You can point out their hypocrisy and they won't defend themselves. Some of them might even try to convince you the situation is somehow different, but most don't care. They set their sights on a goal and backfill an argument to justify it.

Can't remember who I saw lay it out like this, but I think it's broadly correct: Republicans like the hypocrisy precisely because it is another way to show power. You are beholden to things that you believe or that you have evidence for, I do and say whatever the fuck I want and you can do nothing about it. Changing the party line and ethos the way other people change socks doesn't matter if your world view isn't based on consistent underlying principles, but on demonstrating power and superiority. When you view the world and politics like that, being right or wrong in a debate is just showmanship and aesthetics rather than substance.

"Big Pause?" Did you just make that up, cuz that's a true stroke of genius!

Glitch McConnell

Just like how Mitch “Big Pause” McConnell said that you can’t nominate a Supreme Court Justice during an election year for Obama and then put a fucking Handsmaid on the court in 2020.

Mitch "Big Paws" McConnell.

I also recommend against searching "Mitch McConnell rule 34".

Let's not adopt Trump's affectation of insulting someone in their name by attacking their body during a discussion of their actions.

I think it is not a good change to the language.

The GQP and ilk have no shame or principles, but it always helpful to spread the word about their duplicity. There are plenty of persuadable people outside of the GQP.

Momentary Mute Mitch

I read his little memo about why they could with Trump and it was the most mental gymnastics I've seen.

If he wasn't lying, I'd honestly think the freedom caucus is right and McCarthy isn't a Republican after all.

McCarthy has what he wants, he is just trying to hang on to it. Anything he does is to just not get voted out as Speaker. I don't believe he has any longer term plans than that. Which makes him so dangerous. The Chaos Caucus basically gets whatever they want.

Seems like they don't want to learn.

Sometimes they really feel like controlled opposition.

"I'm not Speaker Pelosi, I'm speaker McCarthy."

And if it weren't for bad faith, they'd have no faith at all either.

I think if you change your handle, then search back, the naming reflects current

You can change your handle on Twitter. He was minority leader 4 years ago.

I've found multiple references to that user name online so unless everyone's been fooled by a corrupted source, it seems it was.