Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense. Politicians love hypocrisy!
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Sawant says feces thrown at her home repeatedly, claims Seattle Police ‘failing to investigate’ threats after protesting to abolish the police
Seattle’s favorite politician is upset that the police won’t help her out. She is a politician who rails against the system treating certain people differently, and wants to be treated differently. Seattle residents have been dealing with poop in on their sidewalks for months and Sawant can figure it out on her own.
Kshama Sawant, the socialist city councilwoman who led the efforts to defund and demonize the Seattle Police Department, is again asking for special treatment. This time it's because someone keeps throwing poop at her. I broke it down on Tucker Carlson Tonight. pic.twitter.com/Fy8PCtQGDW
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 21, 2022
Matt Gaetz pleads for help after voting against it
Florida politicians Matte Gaetz, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and all 16 GOP members of Florida’s Congressional team voted against it.
The conflict between lawmakers’ public promises to help the storm’s victims—and their own commitment to blocking or reducing the scope of that help—would be just the latest instance of the congressional GOP trying to have it both ways when it comes to disaster relief.
After Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012, a group of conservative lawmakers—many of them from Texas—revolted against extensive federal spending to help New York and New Jersey rebuild after the devastation. Reflecting the rhetoric at the time, then-first-year Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), hyped rescue legislation as being full of wasteful “pork.”
