• @JoShmoe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    To see McCarthy calling for an impeachment, despite a law the republicans themselves made to stop trump from getting impeached during his term, is comical. Literally elementary school logic.

    • @Spike@feddit.de
      4•1 year ago

      Do not think they do not recognize their own hypocrisy. It is a demonstration of power: “See, I can get away with it. Because I am in power.”

      • darq
        3•1 year ago

        This. To anyone who thinks this is the Republicans being hypocritical: They know. They do not care. They are lying to your face. Pointing out the hypocrisy does literally nothing because they. Do. Not. Care.

        • Hyperreality
          1•1 year ago

          Ugh. It’s time to post this Sartre quote again. I hate that it’s still relevant:

          “Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

          • @neocamel
            1•1 year ago

            I find the last sentence of that quote particularly interesting. Any example of this tactic recently?

        • DarkGamer
          1•1 year ago

          Agreed, it’s never been about ideological consistency or evidence-based governance. It’s about, “hurting the right people,” to appeal to the masses, and plutocracy to appeal to their donors.

          Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
          There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
          There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
          For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.
          -Frank Wilhoit