There was a lot of fake outrage from Republicans last week, taking a break from suppressing the Black vote, pretending to be outraged at Joe Biden saying a Joe Biden.
Oh my, the former Republican governor of South Carolina and 2024 presidential hopeful is struggling with such gut wrenching words. Which, maybe we could take seriously if she had “struggled” with some of the following words tweeted by an impeached president currently fiddling (playing golf) while the nation suffers a mass casualty event.
Aside from the hypocrisy of a party literally committed to preventing communities of color from voting, is Haley upset at Trump’s disparaging of women, just over the last several days?? Here he is retweeting this piece of shit calling Hillary Clinton “the skank.”
Here he is mocking Stacey Abrams for being overweight (which is particularly rich given his own obesity):
He also retweeted this:
And for good measure, imagine the fake outrage machine if any Democrat had celebrated the death of our veterans in combat:
I guess it would be too much for him to exhibit the proper somber tone for this day, when he can’t even muster the most bare sympathy for the 100,000 dead Americans under his watch (and counting).
It’s one thing to look the other way as Trump debases our public discourse and takes bullying, racism, sexism, and every other -ism to new heights. That’s the entire modern Republican Party. It’s another to sit there and pretend that anything that Biden says is in any way even remotely similar.
Or put another way, the fake outrage game no longer works when you have a real outrage leading your party and your movement.