Tag: GOP Hypocrisy

Privately, Republicans Support Gun Control

Buck Banks

“Republicans will say privately that they know they are on the wrong side of contemporary political thinking — and reality — when it comes to gun policy. Many of them will say off the record or on background that they could get away with supporting banning assault weapons, banning high-capacity magazines and tightening background checks. But they need Trump to embrace these ideas as well — and consistently. The president tends to pop his head up, support something and then retreat.”

— Playbook

The Fate of the World Is in the Hands of a Porn Star

Jon Ponder

This tawdry state of affairs is visited upon us because millions of Republicans were willingly duped by a conman who is also a notoriously degenerate serial philanderer.

Ironically, these are the same Republicans who appointed themselves the arbiters of family values and the sanctity of marriage in the 1980s and then literally sat in judgment on Bill Clinton’s extramarital dalliances in the 1990s.

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Donald on Government Shutdown in 2013: ‘Problems Start at the Top, and the President’s the Leader’

Jon Ponder

At minute 2:05:

DONALD TRUMP: Well, if you say who gets fired it always has to be the top. I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top and the president’s the leader. And he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead … It’s a very, very bad thing, and it’s very embarrassing worldwide.

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