'This you?' Francesca Fiorentini breaks down GOP hypocrisy as Republicans react to Graham Platner's sexual assault allegations, while ignoring the many, many accusations against the U.S. president.
Republicans discovered sexual-assault accountability the exact moment it involved a Democrat, which is adorable in the way a raccoon wearing a judge’s robe is adorable. Graham Platner faced serious allegations and his own side moved fast. Fine. That’s what should happen. But the same people clutching pearls on Fox built a golden throne for Trump after decades of accusations, the Access Hollywood tape, and a civil jury finding him liable for sexual abuse. Their standard is not “believe women.” It is “believe women only when it helps the team.” That is not morality. That is campaign strategy in church clothes.
VMB, what you describe in your post is classic hypocrisy and spot-on. I just sent a scathing email to the junior Senator "Foghorn Leghorn" from LA who went all "holier than thou" recently and called Platner a "predator." Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones (I'm looking at you, sanctimonious MAGAt creeps). A plague on all your glass houses.
Thank-you, Francesca. ... spot on! I'm beginning to think these republicans share a (small) brain among them. As their numbers increase their piece of the brain pie gets watered down even more.
Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator and staunch Trump ally, dies at 71 after a 'brief and sudden' illness on Saturday evening, [11 July] his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of US military power overseas. A war hawk, he!
The chattering classes have swooped down on Graham's corpse before it was cold.
Comedians found a rich vein of humor in Graham's 'Confederate' courtliness, his drawl and hard heart.
There wasn't a war he didn't like.
John McCain kept him on a short leash, but Trump couldn't.
The Nazi Republicans know no depths of their hypocrisy and immoral dishonesty.
The Nazi Republican’s Big Lie: Cost Of DOGE
The world’s wealthiest Muskrat, thanks to US government contracts, got on stage with another malignant narcissist and lied to the American people that he was going to make the government efficient and streamline it’s function thereby saving the American taxpayer $2T, later revised downwards to $1T. Like the Cheeto lies, this Muskrat lie never came to be and as a matter of fact cost WE the People dearly.
It’s now estimated that the savings that the racist and apartheid supporter cost the American taxpayer $11-15B due to DOGE activities and cuts to governmental agencies. OBM head Voight, "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down..."
Government agencies have had to rehire people back and worse yet even though federal workers wanted to return they were paid but not allowed to return. This became spendthrift Cheeto mismanagement at its worse. No wonder he bankrupted 5 companies and he will more than likely bankrupt the federal government on his way out the door due to his taxcuts for the wealthy.
And the above losses don’t account for the $220B loss in tax revenue due to the firing of 28% of IRS employees. Never has it been more clear that a vote for a wealthy Nazi bigoted racist Republican at any level in government is a major mistake.
They should just shut up. They are not ones to talk. But they are also celebrating Platner’s takedown. Hopefully Platner’s political issues he was running on doesn’t get taken down too.
The fact that Kennedy is not run out of DC on a rail is everything you need to know about Southern GOP politics. Hypocrisy is the least of his traits of horror.
Thank you, Francesca, you are spot on! The only point missing is that the Democrats are equally to blame for their moralistic approach to silencing and shutting down anyone who is daring to speak truth to power. I’m from Maine and still support Graham Platner.
Great points Franceseca. The hypocrisy is going to rise to new heights now that Lindsey has died. He will be venerated by the little dicktator in the WH. Even though to stay "relevant", his words, he toed the line. After he and others in this admin called him, little dicktator, out for what he was and still is. Yeah, he said let them bomb women and children in Palestine. Yeah let them bomb Irani's into the next world. Nothing will change unless everything changes. There is no such animal as a republican lite or even a democrat ideal. All there is, is power that "corrupts absolutely." Sexual exploitation is the norm. These men are not the exceptions to the rule. Look into your own lives and that of your families before you say "he is the ONLY bad guy."
Well, finally I see someone (Trump) raise the question, if that women is lying. This was my take:
Has been ANY consideration that, that women maybe lying? What if it was consensual? In sex there are many degrees of consent. What if it is all a lie? This sounds to me like a malicious scheme of the Democratic Party to get rid of any one that has progressive ideas, a vengeance for the success of Zohran Mandani, because they weren't prepared to, or thought that he couldn't win. It is despicable! Why didn't she filled a complain of rape then? Why does this comes to light just months before the November vote, and after Graham won the primary? It is clear that the Democrat Party wants to get a more "compliant" candidate on the Senate.
"Some will say these were hard calls. They were not. Patterns of misbehavior matter. Credibility matters. Values matter most when they cost something. Democrats did not need a final, explosive allegation to decide Platner’s record was incompatible with public office. All along, it was as plain as the Nazi SS tattoo on his chest."
"What would courage have looked like? Early, unequivocal lines; no tolerance for bigotry; no hedging on alleged violence against women. Ever. Leaders saying plainly, before the tidal wave of condemnation, that a pattern of cruelty and hate disqualifies a person from office."
"If New Hampshire Democrats still want to claim the mantle of a party that protects the vulnerable, values character and keeps faith with its ideals, they must relearn a simple habit: say no before the pollster does. Draw bright lines of minimal integrity and keep them bright. Tell the truth early.
When leaders choose caution over conscience, the damage does not end with one candidate or one race. It teaches a generation that standards bend to expedience. And there is no quicker way to lose not only elections, but the reason they matter."
Nazi Propaganda
"The Nazis effectively used propaganda to win the support of millions of Germans in a democracy and, later in a dictatorship, to facilitate persecution, war, and ultimately genocide. The stereotypes and images found in Nazi propaganda were not new, but were already familiar to their intended audience."
The foundation of the Nazi Party of Germany is the Democratic Party of the USA. You may read about this on the internet.
Donald Trump is a hundred times worse human being than Graham Platner and the COWARDS Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown do not care. Trump is second biggest Fascist after Hitler and second worst President after Andrew Jackson. The life of Andrew Jackson was saved by Cherokees who fought with him against the British. Traitor Andrew Jackson then used Trail of Tears Death March to steal lands from and murder Native Americans. Ever wonder why you do not get taught the REAL HISTORY of the USA in Public Schools?
Donald Trump is the biggest coward who has ever lived. Donald Trump being the biggest coward who has ever lived does not bother me.
When the biggest coward who has ever lived says he does not like people who have been captured, this does bother me.
Trump on John McCain: ‘I like people who weren’t captured’
Soldiers were forced to fight and die in Vietnam because of the Draft.
An Amendment to the Constitution that Eliminates the Draft as a Possibility
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Cowards - Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown have all shown they are enemies of our Prisoners of War. I knew most of the following before I was 10 years old in 1980 because of World War 2 movies I watched with my grandmother Ida Stremsky. Soldiers get captured after their planes are shot down by other planes. Soldier get captured after their planes are hit by ant-aircraft guns. Soldiers get captured after their ships are hit by bombs from planes. Ships get captured after they are hit from weapons from other ships. Tanks get captured after hit by weapons by other tanks.
I am a Patriot and a Real Republican Progressive Capitalist. If you do not want to vote for a coward for US Senate in Republican Primary this year, you may write in a candidate's name.
I ran for US Senate in 2002 and wrote
How to increase membership in the Republican Party
Republican candidates should distance themselves from President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney who do not have much ethics because they have not told the American people everything they should tell them about their dealings with Enron and the oil industry. Their unwillingness to tell the truth makes me think there are bigger things they are trying to hide. I do not think the American people will re-elect another unethical President of the United States of America the way they did President Clinton."
DO BILL O'BRIEN, JOHN E. SUNUNU, AND SCOTT BROWN CARE THAT PUERTO RICO IS PART OF THE USA AND THAT SOLDIERS FROM PUERTO RICO HAVE DIED IN OUR MILITARY? Have any of the cowards in the FAKE REPUBLICAN PARTY said how lousy a job President Donald Trump did dealing with Hurricane in Puerto Rico. Soldiers and supplies were delivered by parachutes during WW2. Soldiers and supplies were delivered by helicopter during Korea. An elephant was delivered by parachutes from cargo plane dealing with Vietnam. Helicopters have often been used to help people deal with hurricanes. Obama helped people in Iraq with cargo planes. Soldiers are trained to jump out of helicopters into water and drag supplies to land.
Donald Trump used bankruptcy to steal from Veteran owned small businesses.
Do Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown care at all about the Rule of Law. I know the judges on the US Supreme Court of Corruption do not.
Amendment 14
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The judges on the US Supreme Court of Corruption do not care that Trump needed before the general election for CONGRESS to give him permission to run for President again.
The USA is a Federal Republic and in a Federal Republic each state legislature gets to decide if a candidate for President has taken oath of office and then participated in an insurrection if Congress has not given the candidate permission to run again. Each state legislature in a Federal Republic gets to ban from its primary election and general election a candidate for President it believes has taken oath of office and then participated in an insurrection if candidate has not received from Congress permission to run again. A 10-year old after reading Amendment 14 should know Trump is not legitimate President.
PROFILES IN COWARDICE AND TREASON - DONALD TRUMP
PROFILES IN COWARDICE - BILL O'BRIEN, JOHN E. SUNUNU, SCOTT BROWN.
Please stop voting for Fake Republicans. They are destroying our state and our Republic. I have hated the Fake Republican Party for over 40 years. Our national debt was less than $1 trillion before imbecile and Fake Republican Ronald Reagan became President. Over 200 hundred of our Marines died in Lebanon because of Reagan's incompetence.
The Impact: Marines Reflect on Beirut Bombing After 40 Years
Very well presented! Thank you
Republicans discovered sexual-assault accountability the exact moment it involved a Democrat, which is adorable in the way a raccoon wearing a judge’s robe is adorable. Graham Platner faced serious allegations and his own side moved fast. Fine. That’s what should happen. But the same people clutching pearls on Fox built a golden throne for Trump after decades of accusations, the Access Hollywood tape, and a civil jury finding him liable for sexual abuse. Their standard is not “believe women.” It is “believe women only when it helps the team.” That is not morality. That is campaign strategy in church clothes.
VMB, what you describe in your post is classic hypocrisy and spot-on. I just sent a scathing email to the junior Senator "Foghorn Leghorn" from LA who went all "holier than thou" recently and called Platner a "predator." Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones (I'm looking at you, sanctimonious MAGAt creeps). A plague on all your glass houses.
Thank-you, Francesca. ... spot on! I'm beginning to think these republicans share a (small) brain among them. As their numbers increase their piece of the brain pie gets watered down even more.
Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator and staunch Trump ally, dies at 71 after a 'brief and sudden' illness on Saturday evening, [11 July] his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of US military power overseas. A war hawk, he!
The chattering classes have swooped down on Graham's corpse before it was cold.
Comedians found a rich vein of humor in Graham's 'Confederate' courtliness, his drawl and hard heart.
There wasn't a war he didn't like.
John McCain kept him on a short leash, but Trump couldn't.
At this point, it's just how it is with the 🔴
The Nazi Republicans know no depths of their hypocrisy and immoral dishonesty.
The Nazi Republican’s Big Lie: Cost Of DOGE
The world’s wealthiest Muskrat, thanks to US government contracts, got on stage with another malignant narcissist and lied to the American people that he was going to make the government efficient and streamline it’s function thereby saving the American taxpayer $2T, later revised downwards to $1T. Like the Cheeto lies, this Muskrat lie never came to be and as a matter of fact cost WE the People dearly.
It’s now estimated that the savings that the racist and apartheid supporter cost the American taxpayer $11-15B due to DOGE activities and cuts to governmental agencies. OBM head Voight, "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down..."
Government agencies have had to rehire people back and worse yet even though federal workers wanted to return they were paid but not allowed to return. This became spendthrift Cheeto mismanagement at its worse. No wonder he bankrupted 5 companies and he will more than likely bankrupt the federal government on his way out the door due to his taxcuts for the wealthy.
And the above losses don’t account for the $220B loss in tax revenue due to the firing of 28% of IRS employees. Never has it been more clear that a vote for a wealthy Nazi bigoted racist Republican at any level in government is a major mistake.
I continue to be disgusted and mystified by the Democrats' inability to mobilize outrage over Trump and the 13 year old.
They should just shut up. They are not ones to talk. But they are also celebrating Platner’s takedown. Hopefully Platner’s political issues he was running on doesn’t get taken down too.
The fact that Kennedy is not run out of DC on a rail is everything you need to know about Southern GOP politics. Hypocrisy is the least of his traits of horror.
It’s a cult.
Thank you, Francesca, you are spot on! The only point missing is that the Democrats are equally to blame for their moralistic approach to silencing and shutting down anyone who is daring to speak truth to power. I’m from Maine and still support Graham Platner.
Democrats do too 🤔
Great points Franceseca. The hypocrisy is going to rise to new heights now that Lindsey has died. He will be venerated by the little dicktator in the WH. Even though to stay "relevant", his words, he toed the line. After he and others in this admin called him, little dicktator, out for what he was and still is. Yeah, he said let them bomb women and children in Palestine. Yeah let them bomb Irani's into the next world. Nothing will change unless everything changes. There is no such animal as a republican lite or even a democrat ideal. All there is, is power that "corrupts absolutely." Sexual exploitation is the norm. These men are not the exceptions to the rule. Look into your own lives and that of your families before you say "he is the ONLY bad guy."
Well, finally I see someone (Trump) raise the question, if that women is lying. This was my take:
Has been ANY consideration that, that women maybe lying? What if it was consensual? In sex there are many degrees of consent. What if it is all a lie? This sounds to me like a malicious scheme of the Democratic Party to get rid of any one that has progressive ideas, a vengeance for the success of Zohran Mandani, because they weren't prepared to, or thought that he couldn't win. It is despicable! Why didn't she filled a complain of rape then? Why does this comes to light just months before the November vote, and after Graham won the primary? It is clear that the Democrat Party wants to get a more "compliant" candidate on the Senate.
Bill O'Brien: Profiles in cowardice: Dems needed permission to have principals
https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/bill-obrien-profiles-in-cowardice-dems-needed-permission-to-have-principals/article_fdd83ad0-1c0a-40e6-a19c-e2081e16f150.html
"Some will say these were hard calls. They were not. Patterns of misbehavior matter. Credibility matters. Values matter most when they cost something. Democrats did not need a final, explosive allegation to decide Platner’s record was incompatible with public office. All along, it was as plain as the Nazi SS tattoo on his chest."
"What would courage have looked like? Early, unequivocal lines; no tolerance for bigotry; no hedging on alleged violence against women. Ever. Leaders saying plainly, before the tidal wave of condemnation, that a pattern of cruelty and hate disqualifies a person from office."
"If New Hampshire Democrats still want to claim the mantle of a party that protects the vulnerable, values character and keeps faith with its ideals, they must relearn a simple habit: say no before the pollster does. Draw bright lines of minimal integrity and keep them bright. Tell the truth early.
When leaders choose caution over conscience, the damage does not end with one candidate or one race. It teaches a generation that standards bend to expedience. And there is no quicker way to lose not only elections, but the reason they matter."
Nazi Propaganda
"The Nazis effectively used propaganda to win the support of millions of Germans in a democracy and, later in a dictatorship, to facilitate persecution, war, and ultimately genocide. The stereotypes and images found in Nazi propaganda were not new, but were already familiar to their intended audience."
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda
The foundation of the Nazi Party of Germany is the Democratic Party of the USA. You may read about this on the internet.
Donald Trump is a hundred times worse human being than Graham Platner and the COWARDS Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown do not care. Trump is second biggest Fascist after Hitler and second worst President after Andrew Jackson. The life of Andrew Jackson was saved by Cherokees who fought with him against the British. Traitor Andrew Jackson then used Trail of Tears Death March to steal lands from and murder Native Americans. Ever wonder why you do not get taught the REAL HISTORY of the USA in Public Schools?
Donald Trump is the biggest coward who has ever lived. Donald Trump being the biggest coward who has ever lived does not bother me.
When the biggest coward who has ever lived says he does not like people who have been captured, this does bother me.
Trump on John McCain: ‘I like people who weren’t captured’
https://apnews.com/article/id-cde31d2fa3a244d29de77b31a59b799a
Soldiers were forced to fight and die in Vietnam because of the Draft.
An Amendment to the Constitution that Eliminates the Draft as a Possibility
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Cowards - Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown have all shown they are enemies of our Prisoners of War. I knew most of the following before I was 10 years old in 1980 because of World War 2 movies I watched with my grandmother Ida Stremsky. Soldiers get captured after their planes are shot down by other planes. Soldier get captured after their planes are hit by ant-aircraft guns. Soldiers get captured after their ships are hit by bombs from planes. Ships get captured after they are hit from weapons from other ships. Tanks get captured after hit by weapons by other tanks.
I am a Patriot and a Real Republican Progressive Capitalist. If you do not want to vote for a coward for US Senate in Republican Primary this year, you may write in a candidate's name.
I ran for US Senate in 2002 and wrote
How to increase membership in the Republican Party
Sunday, July 21, 2002
by Kenneth Stremsky
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Vox/?20020721-0
"One.
Republican candidates should distance themselves from President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney who do not have much ethics because they have not told the American people everything they should tell them about their dealings with Enron and the oil industry. Their unwillingness to tell the truth makes me think there are bigger things they are trying to hide. I do not think the American people will re-elect another unethical President of the United States of America the way they did President Clinton."
DO BILL O'BRIEN, JOHN E. SUNUNU, AND SCOTT BROWN CARE THAT PUERTO RICO IS PART OF THE USA AND THAT SOLDIERS FROM PUERTO RICO HAVE DIED IN OUR MILITARY? Have any of the cowards in the FAKE REPUBLICAN PARTY said how lousy a job President Donald Trump did dealing with Hurricane in Puerto Rico. Soldiers and supplies were delivered by parachutes during WW2. Soldiers and supplies were delivered by helicopter during Korea. An elephant was delivered by parachutes from cargo plane dealing with Vietnam. Helicopters have often been used to help people deal with hurricanes. Obama helped people in Iraq with cargo planes. Soldiers are trained to jump out of helicopters into water and drag supplies to land.
Donald Trump used bankruptcy to steal from Veteran owned small businesses.
Do Bill O'Brien, John E. Sununu, Scott Brown care at all about the Rule of Law. I know the judges on the US Supreme Court of Corruption do not.
Amendment 14
Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
The judges on the US Supreme Court of Corruption do not care that Trump needed before the general election for CONGRESS to give him permission to run for President again.
The USA is a Federal Republic and in a Federal Republic each state legislature gets to decide if a candidate for President has taken oath of office and then participated in an insurrection if Congress has not given the candidate permission to run again. Each state legislature in a Federal Republic gets to ban from its primary election and general election a candidate for President it believes has taken oath of office and then participated in an insurrection if candidate has not received from Congress permission to run again. A 10-year old after reading Amendment 14 should know Trump is not legitimate President.
PROFILES IN COWARDICE AND TREASON - DONALD TRUMP
PROFILES IN COWARDICE - BILL O'BRIEN, JOHN E. SUNUNU, SCOTT BROWN.
Please stop voting for Fake Republicans. They are destroying our state and our Republic. I have hated the Fake Republican Party for over 40 years. Our national debt was less than $1 trillion before imbecile and Fake Republican Ronald Reagan became President. Over 200 hundred of our Marines died in Lebanon because of Reagan's incompetence.
The Impact: Marines Reflect on Beirut Bombing After 40 Years
Posted on September 15, 2023
https://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/the-impact/
Marine base security is decided by President if not changed by Congress.
Embassy security is decided by Congress and not Secretary of State. Do fake Republicans in Congress know how to read?
Sincerely,
Kenneth Scot Stremsky
187 Poplar Street
Manchester, NH 03104
603-647-5898
I don't live in Maine, but my opinion is for Platner to stay in the election, win and vote on positions he is currently supporting.