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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 05:19 AM Sep 2020

It's This, Republicans

It’s not the fact that you immediately demonstrated your hypocrisy by trying to push through your SCOTUS nominee this close to an election, despite saying the exact opposite when it was a Democrat in the White House. We all saw that coming from light years away.

We also knew that you would completely ignore the death of an American icon, and that your voters would actually celebrate her passing. We’ve long ago accepted that Republicans are mannerless pigs, so no surprise there.

What is truly galling about the behaviour of the GOP is the fact that you couldn’t wait a week before doing what everyone knew you were going to do anyway.

It should have been a week full of kind words, meaningful observations, funny anecdotal stories about Ruth Bader-Ginsburg from Republicans – acting in the same way Democrats have on the passing of a prominent Republican.

One fucking week! Could Republicans being asked to comment on replacing RBG on the Court not have answered with a simple: ”Justice Bader-Ginsburg has just passed. It’s not the time to discuss this”?

Could you not have at least publicly feigned some sense of respect – while salivating over her passing behind closed doors?

We, the decent people of the United States of America, are appalled by your lack of common, everyday manners – but sadly, we are not in the least surprised.

You actually might have done yourselves some good politically by at least pretending to act honourably. But you’re no longer even capable of pretence because – especially over the past four years – you have so blatantly exposed who you really are.


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It's This, Republicans (Original Post) NanceGreggs Sep 2020 OP
,,, catbyte Sep 2020 #1
They were in a hurry to take away healthcare from 20 million people... kentuck Sep 2020 #2
Decent, honorably are two words ronatchig Sep 2020 #3
A week? Mitch couldn't wait an hour struggle4progress Sep 2020 #4
What is surprising here Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #5
I wasn't surprised by the lack of decency. NanceGreggs Sep 2020 #7
And they don't even seem to care... OldBaldy1701E Sep 2020 #8
Agreed. I was also not surprised by the lack of decency. joshdawg Sep 2020 #9
Yes. Life has taught me that when someone passes, you really see the real person then... Illumination Sep 2020 #6
they are WEAK and SCARED LymphocyteLover Sep 2020 #10
They have no decency, FoxNewsSucks Sep 2020 #11
Terrible, awful, vile samplegirl Sep 2020 #12

ronatchig

(575 posts)
3. Decent, honorably are two words
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 06:52 AM
Sep 2020

That have been struck from the GOP lexicon. It's dog eat dog world after all. Getting rich by any means possible is the hip thing to do. I began to mourn for our world in the eighties when the meme "greed is good" went viral.
To your point Nance the piggies wallow in the filth of their empty prisons of wealth.
Nance=

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
5. What is surprising here
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 06:55 AM
Sep 2020

Is the apparent surprise by the OP at the lack of any decency on the part of the republicans.

Makes a nice rant I suppose, but really nothing beyond that.

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
7. I wasn't surprised by the lack of decency.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:04 AM
Sep 2020

I was surprised by the failure to fake decency when it would have been politically advantageous to do so.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,113 posts)
8. And they don't even seem to care...
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:21 AM
Sep 2020

which I find disconcerting. As if they already know they are not going to give up one microbe of power and position. I find that a bit scary, and very upsetting.

joshdawg

(2,647 posts)
9. Agreed. I was also not surprised by the lack of decency.
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:38 AM
Sep 2020

But, by the same token, I was not surprised by their failure of having even a little fake decency. Today's republicans have no decency, fake or otherwise.
Thanks to their worship of trump, they have no moral compass, no honesty, no integrity, and no decency fake or otherwise.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
11. They have no decency,
Tue Sep 22, 2020, 07:47 AM
Sep 2020

They don't care enough to bother acting with a little decency. Neither is really a surprise.

What is scary is the fact that the people who vote for them also apparently don't care about real or perceived decency at all.

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