I could go on and on about Republican hypocrisy,
but there’s not really much value in pointing it out, is there?
You know they’re craven hypocrites,
I know they’re craven hypocrites,
but their voting base doesn’t care.
Indeed, far from being ashamed of their inconsistencies and lies and corruption, Republicans revel in it.
They seem to take great pleasure in the fact that there is one set of rules for them and another set of rules for the hoi polloi.
Trump has even said he believes the constitution gives him
“the right to do whatever I want as president”.
Many of his minions seem to believe they also have the right to do whatever they like
Chuck Darwin@cdarwin@c.imMother Jones notes that nepo baby Tom Kean
“voted against New Jersey’s historic "Earned Sick Leave Act",
which mandates 5 paid sick leave days per year for New Jersey workers.
He also voted against New Jersey’s "No Surprise Medical Bills act"
and two of its paid family leave laws, in 2008 and 2018.”
Kean also supported Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”,
which makes devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare,
and will make life a lot harder for people with disabilities.
Kean, in short, voted to ensure the most vulnerable people in the US suffer, all so the rich can get more tax cuts.
Kean, to be fair, is far from the only politician to be a raging hypocrite.
It’s basically a job requirement,
particularly for Republicans.
There are a number of Republican men who make a big song and dance about how evil abortion is,
but quickly change their tune when their mistress needs one.
In 2017, for example,
Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania resigned from Congress after claims he pressured a woman he was having an extramarital affair with to have an abortion.
The following year, Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for Donald Trump, resigned from the Republican National Committee after it was revealed that he paid $1.6m to a Playboy Playmate he had had an affair with.
Broidy got the woman pregnant and she decided to have an abortion.
Herschel Walker, a former football star who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for a US Senate seat in Georgia in 2022, has also been accused of paying for an abortion.
Walker denied the claim but also said he didn’t know the woman. -- It later transpired she was the mother of one of his children.
Walker, by the way, is now United States ambassador to the Bahamas.
