Everything and all things relating to Trump start with cruelty and stupidity and end in hypocrisy.
In the Trump era, the Republicans have gone out of their way to change their minds because when a Democrat does it, it's an outrage. When it's a Republican, it's business as usual.
Adultery? Who me?
I took on Trump's religious hypocrisy in Trump and the Ten Commandments, and how he had broken every one.
In December of 2023, a columinst chronicled 25 Times Republicans Looked Like Fools and Hypocrites While We Cackled. It's a rogues gallery as you might expect from Matt Gaetz to Rudy Giuliani.
Double standards.
Republicans have different standard for themselves, especially when it comes to sexual allegations. A couple allegations of inappropriate behavior, and Sen. Al Franken had to resign. Rep. Matt Gaetz was openly being investigated three years ago, but even now, after the report detailing illegal activities came out, law enforcement is doing nothing. Trump's nominees for high government positions prove he doesn't care about sex crimes because he is a sex crime criminal himself with the E.Jean Carroll sexual abuse conviction.
Sing Along With Mitch
Mitch McConnell is a lifetime practitioner of the art of hypocrisy. Everything changes when it's a Republican instead of a Democrat. Immediately after Jan. 6th, he gave an impassioned speech how Trump was actually liable for what had happened, and that he could be charged both civilly and criminally after leaving office. When it came time to convict Trump in the Senate after the House impeached him, he voted to acquit Trump, saying that the law would deal with him.
Well, the law didn't get very far because of bad judges and the Supreme Court, and how every defendant has the right to every avenue of defense, no matter how absurd the argument.
A good man is ignored so Trump can pack the court.
The last year of Obama's presidency, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died. Obama named Merrick Garland to replace him. Mitch said that because Obama was a lame duck president, everybody had to wait for the next president. That was Trump, and we got Neil Gorsuch.
Then Mitch went and voted for Trump again this year. Doesn't matter how reprehensible he thinks Trump really is. He just can't vote for a Democrat to save his life.
Ron DeTrumpist
Let's cover some recent hypocrisy. Ron DeSantis is going out of his way to schedule special elections for Republican House seats left open by the resignation of Matt Gaetz, and Mike Waltz, who is Trump's pick for National Security advisor. He's scheduled those for January 28th. At the same time he's left a democratic District waiting for 9 months. He's doing it so quickly in order to help Mike Johnson with his slim majority in the House. It's no different than when Mitch McConnell held up Obama's nomination for Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court.
Hypocrisy abounds.
How about all the Republicans that voted against the right to IVF Act after they had vociferously said that they were for the ability of women to use IVF?
The Hill even has a category called Republican hypocrisy to organize news stories.
Republicans don't even believe in their namesake of a "republic" anymore. It's turned into an authoritarian oligarchy. They hide behind the brand as a way to cover their actions in a way opposite to their professed values. The origin of "Republican" is anti-slavery activists in 1854. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President in 1860. He wouldn't recognize his party now.
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They take a path until it is inconvenient, as in being caught lying. Prime example is George Santos. Republicans actually stood behind him until it was inconvenient, because there was just too much evidence that everything he said was a house of cards. Then it came out that Republican state leaders in New York knew while he was running for office that he was lying about his past. They lie about knowing the lies.
They even lie under oath.
Republicans don't practice with they preach. they scream at the top of their lungs about family values, and then don't do anything to show that's true.
How could you be for children if you voted against the Child Tax Credit, which lifted millions of children out of poverty and onto a positive path?
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Let's not forget Black Nazi Mark Robinson of North Carolina. Already Lt. Governor, he wanted to be Governor. He ran as a man of God, not afraid to use his religion to justify his extreme positions. Trump supported him until, well, he went silent about the man. Maybe it was because Robinson posted racist and explicit messages on a porno site. In 2019 he admitted to paying for an abortion for his then girlfriend in the 1980s. He did not win the gubernatorial election.
Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Let's not forget the Hypocrite in Chief, Donald Trump. His whole life is riddled with hypocrisy. It started with his attempts to keep himself on the Forbes billionaires list by creating the persona of John Barron in 1984. Is it strange he has a son named Barron? Kinda.
Here's an excellent article about how to explain being a Democrat and a Republican to a child. To put it in the simplest terms possible, a Democrat brings the ball to a game and allows everybody to use it, the Republican comes to the game and says everybody has to bring their own ball.
Their cup runneth over.
In June, Jon Stewart examined the fact that Republicans complain about crime and yet they are responsible for the flood of illegal weapons creating crime. Their hypocrisy about guns is a feature, not a bug.
Cancun Ted.
Rafael Edward Cruz is Ted's real name, but he introduced a bill that allows for deadnaming, the act of calling a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name after they have changed it. Good for you Raf.
Republicans should rename their party to GOPHER. Grand Old Party of Hypocritical Evangelical Recalcitrants.
The fact is that House Republicans were adamant about releasing the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz. Then suddenly, it was crickets after he resigned. When he came right back into the spotlight with his Attorney General nomination, it was suddenly against the rules to release the report.
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The original complaint against Matt Gaetz was in 2020. Somewhere along the way, sex with underage females and drug use was added in. We didn't know until June of this year that the investigation had been reopened.
In 2017, one writer called the Republican's attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, was a really good example of their pretense. "GOP's hypocrisy is too thick to cut it with a chainsaw."
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You're going to love this one. On April 22, 2021, a Supreme Court watcher wrote that in Court, "Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn walked up to the podium with a 'no court packing' sign. That's not an opening of a joke, it's a real thing that happened this morning. The same Republicans that stole Merrick Garland's seat, that said that they would shrink the size of the court for Hillary Clinton's presidency, and who voted to rush Amy Coney Barrett on to the bench days before the election, are suddenly opposed to making any changes on the court. Give me a break. Their hypocrisy and cynicism could not be more obvious."
Three Senators walk into the Supreme Court bar...and hurt themselves.
Donald Trump walks into a bar...and lowers it.
The Bulwark had an article on Republican hypocrisy about Ukraine. It ended with:
(Republicans) should articulate their vision and strategy for victory or sustainable peace, and if they have none, they should say so.
Then there was the controversy when Biden supposedly said that Trump's supporters were garbage. That's not what happened.
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American."
The controversy here is that Republicans believe, or at least claim, that there was no apostrophe in the remark.
Republicans proving they really are garbage.
Republicans made a big deal at the time, many of them wearing garbage bags like they were clothes, and Trump getting into a garbage truck for a photo op. All because of a missing apostrophe in their interpretation.
Yet they say nothing at all about the horrible things that Donald Trump says every day, and back him up as though we are misinterpreting Donald Trump. There's no misinterpreting Trump, he means what he says.
If lies were all hypocrisy, Republicans would have a corner on the market.
Trump kept saying throughout the campaign that America is in a steep decline, that our economy is terrible when it's the best in the world.
Crime is rampant when it's going down.
We're third world country because the justice system was finally catching up with Trump.
NRSC cheet sheet.
Republicans were hilarious in their attacks on Kamala Harris. The NRSC (National Senate Republican Committee) had a section labeled "Weird" in attack points. Things like "Kamala loves Venn Diagrams." I don't know what the crime is for liking a commonly used visualization of overlapping relationships.
"Kamala loves electric school buses because she went to school on a school bus." This one sounds almost racist about busing. Top that off with the life-threatening electric school bus.
"Kamala recently discovered that electricity doesn't smell." I guess they've never been around after a lightning strike, and you can smell the ozone. Obviously it was about the smell of internal combustion engines.
The worst hypocrisy is one that causes people to die. Abortion is essential healthcare. Giving a fetus more rights as an undeveloped human being and causing the mother to die, while claiming to be pro-life, is the pinnacle of hypocrisy. There have been at least 3 doctors who have been killed, and 11 healthcare workers in offices and abortion clinics as well, since 1990. How is that pro-life? Yet, this is the Republican's claim, that they are pro-life. We have to stop them from using a term to which they are not entitled. It should be anti-healthcare.
They've gone too far in making women go too far.
"Leave it to the states to decide." It was only a short time since the Dobbs decision before nationwide abortion ban bills were introduced in Congress by Republicans. No matter what they say, Republicans want to have it both ways.
Credi: Pat Bagley
Nationwide Republican hypocrisy is their stance on guns. How can you be pro-life when 47,000 people died from gun violence in 2023? Americans own 35% of the guns in the world with only 4% of the population. While crime in general has decreased, gun deaths have increased. The NRA has donated to and lobbied Republican Congressmen, but their influence is outsized. They don't have that much money to donate to Republican candidates. The total in 2024 was less than a million dollars. Why do the Republicans let them be so powerful? Because their endorsement guarantees the vote of the gun fetishists, which apparently is a sizeable amount. After each mass shooting, all we hear from Republicans is "thoughts and prayers" and "get over it."
Trump can't be a crook because Biden is.
"Just as O.J. Simpson pledged to search for the real killer, Trump and his Republicans are on the hunt for the Real Crimes."
The problem with journalists sanewashing Donald Trump has been around as long as Trump has been in the news.
Soleded O'Brien said back in 2019, "The idea of something being 'racially charged' or 'racially tinged', what the f*** is that? Journalists will bend over and literally do gymnastics to avoid calling someone a racist. Or 'verifiably untrue.' It's just a lie! What is wrong with you?"
When the facts don't fit their narrative, they just make up "alternative facts." The phrase was first used by Kellyanne Conway when Sean Spicer made up attendance figures for Trump's inauguration. Conway was on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd. When Todd asked her why Spicer would "utter a provable falsehood", Conway replied that Spicer was giving "alternative facts." Todd would have none of it. "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Alternative brain.
Conway was wildly mocked, but that didn't stop Republicans from using it or the principle. As Daniel Patrick Moyinhan said, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
The Republicans and Trump use projection to accuse Democrats of what they are doing. Biden has weaponized the FBI and the DOJ, when that is exactly what Trump did in his first administration and got caught at it.
Election interference when Trump was convicted of it in the hush-money case.
Biden bungled the withdraw from Afghanistan, they say. The disaster was caused by Trump negotiating with the Taliban and not including the Afghan government. To make things even worse he pressured the Afghan government later to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners, and Trump only left 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan when Biden took office. It's a Trump failure, not Biden's.
Republicans claim to be the party of law and order and the friend of law enforcement. Why then are there so many of them committing crimes? Why did they want to defund the FBI right up until the moment Trump nominated the Indian Nazi Kash Patel for FBI Director?
The only Democrats I can think of in the past 4 years convicted of a crime are Sen. Bob Menendez for a number of corruption charges, and Rep, Jamal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm. Many of Trump's cronies were convicted while he was in office. And then he pardoned them.
If Trump believes in law and order, how can he possibly think of pardoning the Jan. 6th rioters. The bulk of the ones in prison committed violent acts against the police. Thin blue line. Right. It was just a love fest.
Anything but.
Another tactic that is used is whataboutism. When Trump was charged with stealing classified documents, all of a sudden, Obama had millions of documents, many of them classified, according to Trump.
Credi: Jeff Darcy
When Trump is accused of being a crook, Biden is suddenly a crook. Nixon tried to say that he was not a crook, and that didn't work out well for him either.
Trump once asked why anybody would take the 5th Amendment if they were innocent. Then when it came time to give a deposition, he took the 5th Amendment 400 times. All of a sudden it was because he was being persecuted by the fake news.
Should be for, not by, Trump.
35 years ago a woman was brutally raped in Central Park in New York. Six young men of color were accused. Trump took out full page ads in newspapers saying that the young men should get the death penalty for their crimes. They were innocent, but it took a long time for them to get out of jail. Trump has never apologized. Now when Trump is accused and convicted of sexual abuse, he plays innocent.
In reality, Trump's "tough on crime" policies were not tough on crime at all, but tough on the marginalized. He has always been lenient on white, wealthy criminals.
During his presidency, Trump filled his cabinet with crusaders against criminal justice reform.
Trump wanted Hillary Clinton to be locked up. She was never accused of any crime, except in Republicans' own mind, unlike Donald Trump who has been convicted. Only a couple of times during the 2024 campaign, did anyone say about him "lock him up."
Trump didn't get the message when he spoke at the United Nations in 2019 and the assembly literally laughed at him.
President Trump speaks of the need to "enforce our laws," yet his administration is shredding decades of US legal precedent and international agreements on the right to seek asylum. His dehumanizing rhetoric lays bare a deep antipathy towards immigrants and communities of color.
Trump says he wants products to be made in America, yet everything he sells is made in foreign countries. Especially egregious are his Bibles which are made in China. This is a hypocrisy that no one can deny. It's right out in the open for all to see.
I don't think I even need to make a case about Republicans' and Trump's moral hypocrisy.
Trump isn't even in the presidency yet, but his choices for cabinet positions and ambassadors show how he is trying to destroy the government from within. When things go south, he'll blame Biden. And that's the most hypocritical thing of all, he can never admit a mistake.
