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The hypocritical party
#21
Quote:On a visit to Paris earlier this month, Harris reportedly spent more than $500 on cookware at E Dehillerin, a shop near the Louvre museum. She told reporters she was making the purchase with Thanksgiving cooking in mind, prompting laughter when she said her husband, Doug Emhoff, was her “apprentice” in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Republicans and rightwing media outlets seized on the purchase, attempting to use it to show that the vice-president, a former California attorney general and US senator, was out of touch with ordinary Americans. On Friday, the Republican party Twitter account, @GOP, said: “While Americans are struggling to pay more than EVER for the holidays, Kamala Harris is out buying a $375 pot.”

Thanks to the medium involved, responses were short and to the point. Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at Georgetown, wrote: “Just to put this in perspective: What Harris spent her own money on for cookware wouldn’t cover what Trump was charging taxpayers per room for Secret Service agents.” Moynihan linked to a Washington Post report from February 2020, which said the Secret Service paid as much as $650 a night for rooms at Trump properties while Trump was president. Many of those properties were golf courses. The journalist David Leavitt wrote: “While Americans lined up at food pantries and died from Covid, Trump spent $141m of taxpayer’s money playing golf.”

Trump famously criticised Barack Obama for playing too much golf, said he would be too busy to play much himself, then spent considerable time on the fairways. Estimates of the cost to taxpayers vary. One dedicated website, Trumpgolfcount.com, put it at $149m. Other users responding to the GOP attack on Harris noted Trump’s payment of $130,000 to the adult film actor and director Stormy Daniels, while he ran for president, to keep her quiet about an affair.

Back on Twitter, in the continuing fight over the vice-president’s pots and pans, the reporter Victoria Brownworth wrote: “While Americans were struggling to pay more than EVER for the holidays, in December 2017 Republicans voted themselves the biggest tax cut in history and kicked 23m Americans off healthcare.” As it happens, the 2017 tax cut was only the biggest corporate tax cut in history and the Republicans only sought to kick 23m Americans off healthcare, an effort thwarted by the Arizona senator John McCain. But Brownworth wasn’t done. “Also,” she wrote, “Kamala Harris can buy whatever the heck she wants – it’s her money that she earned.”
While Americans mark Thanksgiving, Republicans panned over Harris attack | Kamala Harris | The Guardian
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#22
Quote:It was startling when Murdoch, addressing his company at the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, said that the United States faces a number of major political decisions that conservatives will fail to shape unless Trump moves on. "The current American political debate is profound," he said, citing education, welfare and economic opportunity. "It is crucial that conservatives play an active, forceful role in that debate," he added, "but that will not happen if President Trump stays focused on the past."
Opinion: Why the tide may be turning on Trump - CNN
  • It's hard to beat this for hypocrisy as his network rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars peddling the same election lies day in, day out, with Tucker Carlson's "documentary" that argues January 6 was a false flag operation BS as a standout.
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#23
Quote:Democrats are up in arms this month over GOP charges that President Biden is to blame for the prolonged COVID-19 crisisThey argue that Republicans, from former President Trump to his most vocal allies in Congress and in state capitals, bear plenty of responsibility for public resistance to masks and vaccines, noting the opposition to those leading mitigation efforts comes overwhelmingly from the right. The criticism of masks and vaccines has sabotaged Biden’s efforts to get the nation past the pandemic, some argue.

They've done everything possible to ensure that we can't get past it," Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) said of the Republicans. "They've fought mask requirements, vaccine requirements. They've spread misinformation. They have amplified dangerous conspiracy theories“There is one group to blame in this country for the continued spread of COVID,” she added, “and that's those actors who have done each and every one of those things.”
Democrats livid over GOP's COVID-19 attacks on Biden | TheHill
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#24
Quote:“Now we know, thanks to the text messages of former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, that while domestic terrorists were sacking the Capitol and legislators hid in fear for their lives, several Republican lawmakers, Fox News personalities and Donald Trump, Jr. reached out to Meadows to urge President Donald Trump to call off the attack,” Milbank observes. “Trump refused for hours, and his Pentagon stalled on an urgent plea to deploy the National Guard to defend the Capitol. Essentially, Trump did just what Republicans falsely accused (former Secretary of State Hillary) Clinton of doing in Benghazi. And attacking the U.S. seat of government is orders of magnitude worse than attacking a diplomatic outpost.”

Milbank cites Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both Trump loyalists, as examples of far-right Republicans who demanded answers after the Benghazi attack but haven’t had that level of outrage over January 6. “Jordan, in his addendum to the Benghazi report, wrote that the Obama Administration, ‘so blinded by politics and its desire to win an election, disregarded a basic duty of government: Tell the people the truth,” Milbank writes. “Five years later, with democracy itself on the line, Jordan and his colleagues are fighting the truth as if their very survival depends on it.”
The GOP outrage police who demanded answers after Benghazi are showing ‘rank hypocrisy’ over Jan. 6: journalist - Alternet.org
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#25
Quote:After President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law in 2021, the White House says it has distributed around of $42 billion across America to expand internet access to rural and isolated communities and fund roads and bridges, public transit, water infrastructure, power grids, and airports. One of the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill was former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who took to Twitter and called out his former colleagues. Kinzinger quote-tweeted a post from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that celebrated her state's receiving of funds for its transit system, accusing her of hypocrisy. "I can't say how upsetting it is: I voted for this money and took a lot of heat from GOP. Mace didn't but is happy to pretend she did once the heat is off," he tweeted. Republicans who voted in favor of the bill at the time were attacked by members of their own party. As Newsweek points out, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene even called them "traitors." Now, some Republicans who voted against the bill are singing its praises after enjoying its benefits. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who voted opposed the bill, tweeted Tuesday that the broadband it's provided his constituency "is vital for the success of our rural communities and for our entire economy. Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts."
Former GOP congressman shames colleagues for taking credit for funding they opposed - Alternet.org
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#26
Quote:Candidates running against a sitting president will always argue that the incumbent has botched just about everything and spread misery throughout the land. But as the 2024 Republican contenders maneuver for position and respond to the news of each day, a strange contradiction has emerged. On one hand, they tell voters that America’s deepest problems have been solved and that we bask in the light of the Almighty’s favor. On the other, they insist that our country is a nightmare of moral depravity and suffering

These are the two faces of Republican rhetoric, especially that offered by the party’s presidential candidates: America is the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth, but it’s also a hellhole. It’s a place of limitless opportunity but also limitless woe. Even the lowliest among us can achieve anything they wish, yet we all struggle under the boot heel of an oppressive state. Our hearts overflow with virtue, yet we are a nation of perverts and reprobates. We are envied throughout the world, yet virtually all of our institutions are corrupted nearly beyond repair.
The bizarre contradiction in the GOP’s view of America
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#27
Quote:After belting out his complaints about welfare recipients eating fudge rounds and making QAnon-adjacent allegations about politicians sex trafficking children, conservative darling Oliver Anthony has come under fire from his right-wing fan base for allegedly faking his accent. Mr Anthony's song Rich Men North of Richmond — a reference to politicians living in Washington DC — became a viral hit among conservative audiences last week. After right-wing commenters on social media praised it for its raw and "real" messaging, they seem to have turned on Mr Anthony after a video emerged showing his "real" accent is not a twangy Appalachian one. Infuriating conservatives even further is the fact that Mr Anthony also praised diversity as the US's main strength.
Conservatives turn on Rich Men North of Richmond singer after his real accent is revealed in interview
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