What Rashida Tlaiub said
In the news: GOP Clutches Pearls Over Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Foul Language,’ Shrugs Over Trump’s
After newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) pledged to “impeach that motherf**ker,” referring to President Donald Trump, during a progressive rally Thursday night, Republican lawmakers on Friday immediately turned up the outrage machine.
“You’ve had very foul language used,” said House GOP chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), whose dad, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2004 told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to “fuck yourself” while the two were on the Senate floor for a group photo.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also condemned Tlaib’s remarks as “wrong,” and lauded the previous Republican freshman class because they “put a resolution together to actually work with one another, to not use foul language.” ....
The hypocrisy is breathtaking. It's not just that Republicans have yawned over Trump's own use of the F word, they have refused to condemn him for stuff from boasting about grabbing women's lady parts, to saying that the neo-nazis at Charlottesville were fine people, to calling countries in Africa sh*tholes, to implying Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is a whore. The list of Trump's slurs and lies could go on forever.
Republicans are always justifying the awful things Trump says by asserting that he's only voicing what people really think but are afraid to say. In most cases, I don't thin that's true, but in the case of what What Rashida Tlaiub said about Trump, it's definitely true for me.
After newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) pledged to “impeach that motherf**ker,” referring to President Donald Trump, during a progressive rally Thursday night, Republican lawmakers on Friday immediately turned up the outrage machine.
“You’ve had very foul language used,” said House GOP chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), whose dad, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2004 told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to “fuck yourself” while the two were on the Senate floor for a group photo.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also condemned Tlaib’s remarks as “wrong,” and lauded the previous Republican freshman class because they “put a resolution together to actually work with one another, to not use foul language.” ....
The hypocrisy is breathtaking. It's not just that Republicans have yawned over Trump's own use of the F word, they have refused to condemn him for stuff from boasting about grabbing women's lady parts, to saying that the neo-nazis at Charlottesville were fine people, to calling countries in Africa sh*tholes, to implying Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is a whore. The list of Trump's slurs and lies could go on forever.
Republicans are always justifying the awful things Trump says by asserting that he's only voicing what people really think but are afraid to say. In most cases, I don't thin that's true, but in the case of what What Rashida Tlaiub said about Trump, it's definitely true for me.
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