Let's talk for a few moments about hypocrites and hypocrisy. Not so much about the dictionary definition, but simply about those who say one thing, but then act in a completely different manner, thereby saying they really did not mean what they said in the first place.
The idea of hypocrisy is nothing new. In the past twenty-four hours, however, it has been crystalized with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The man for whom the hypocrisy trophy has been named for and long since retired, Mitch McConnell, told us in 2016 that when an opening occurs in the Supreme Court in an election year, the American people deserve their say in who gets appointed. In that case, Justice Scalia died nine months before election day. Supposedly, that was insufficient time to allow for a proper nomination to be considered and voted upon in the Senate. Now, with forty-five days until election day, there is not only sufficient time to vote in a replacement, but it is somehow the duty of the Senate to do so.
The difference?
McConnell now says that in 2016, the American people deserved the chance to have their say because the sitting president was from the opposite party of the senate majority, and that is not the case now. Putting aside the fact that McConnell never said anything of the sort in 2016, it is worth remembering that when President Obama was sworn in, McConnell outright said his job until Obama was out of office was to ensure that nothing Obama tried to do would pass the Senate.
Nothing.
Zero.
This coming from the man who spent eight years openly and admittedly doing everything he could possibly think of against the sitting president of the United States, the first African American to hold the office to bring him down short of calling him "Boy".
And now, it is okay to hold hearings and confirm a Supreme Court Justice when the opening occurs forty-five days short of election day. I would have said ok to this if not for the fact that four years ago if we were lectured by this guy about how nine months was to soon before the election.
Hypocrite,
In what could be even worse. Joni Ernst, she of demon sheep fame, put out a text last night, just minutes after Justice Ginsburg's passing was announced, using her death as a fund raising tool to rally the troops to ensure that a justice would be put on the court who would reverse Roe v. Wade. Perhaps e even worse was Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, who is running for the Senate, who sent out his condolences, not to Justice Ginsburg and her family, but to the millions of "innocent babies" allegedly murdered with the complicity of Justice Ginsburg during her term on the Court. As of this writing, he has not apologized, taken down the post, or otherwise sent out any condolence over the death of Justice Ginsburg. At least Sen. Ernst has tweeted out an appropriate tribute.
This is the sanctity of life crowd.
The All Lives Matter crowd.
The all lives are sacred gifts from God crowd.
The same crowd that believes that a single abortion, even to save the life of the mother, is murder.
And they are also the same crowd that has said nothing to date about the story coming out that doctors at an I.C.E. facility in Georgia have been performing nonconsensual hysterectomies upon detainees seeking asylum here before sending them back to the countries they have been fleeing from.
Not a word.
Not from Doug Collins. It is apparently murder to abort any child, but nothing at all to perform nonconsensual and medically unnecessary hysterectomies upon women seeking asylum in the United States.
You wouldn't think that the fact that these women do not vote or that they do not speak English has anything to do with his and his crowd's silence has anything to do with this, do you? Apparently, all lives are sacred except for the ones you do not care about.
Hypocrites.
Yes, all lives matter.
Unless you are black and demanding rights all whites get without a second thought.
Unless you are protesting police killing black people. After all, how great is it that some white teenage kid can carry an AR-15 across state lines all by himself, into a state where his mere possession of it is illegal, and then shoot and kill protesters on the street. And how great is it that a bunch of openly armed white guys in MAGA hats can storm the state capitol in Michigan, openly threatening legislators and forcing the cancellation of session, the very definition of sedition, while unarmed black protestors are thugs, murderers and terrorists. It is noted that William Barr believes the black protestors are guilty of sedition for peacefully exercising their first amendment rights, while those white guys with AR-15s are heroes. It is noted that in Washington, unarmed protestors were tear gassed to allow cadet bone spurs to pose with a Bible before a church he does not attend, while yesterday, the police in Michigan simply asked the armed white guys to step back a few feet.
Hypocrites. The entire lot of them.
This is what we are facing. A crowd of mostly white guys, who will say and do just about anything to hold onto their power and to suppress any contrary belief. It has yet to reach the point where they will have their minions out on the street actually shooting us en masse, as opposed to one or two at a time, but it looks like it is getting there. There have been a number of those far right types who have outright said they will be out on the streets killing us if they do not get the result they want on election day. And from those All Lives Matter folks?
Nothing.
No statements pleading for sanity and peace.
Nothing.
So...
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.
Send the hypocrites home.
Fight on.
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