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Monday 2nd of March 2026

Hypocrisy If we dislike hypocrisy more than we dislike lying, then it is not just a problem for climate politics. It is a problem for democracy. It gives the liars their chance. David Runciman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy Of course, Democrats are screaming now about Republican hypocrisy over Trump filling the Ginsburg seat in an election year. “They said one thing when it was Obama and now they're saying  the complete opposite. How can they sleep at night?” I'll tell you how. Like babies.  Because, like babies, they have no morals. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Sept. 25, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy A report that came out at CNN says Republicans call Biden infrastructure program socialism, and then they ask for the money. And it goes through all of the Republicans, those who call it socialism and how they’re asking. [names several identified in the report] I can go down the list. Look it up. Socialism. I didn't know there were that many socialist Republicans. Joe Biden, October 14, 2022 [CNN named: Mark Amodei (NV), Andy Barr (KY), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Lauren Boebert (CO), Larry Bucshon (IN), Jerry Carl (IN), Jim Comer (KY), Tom Emmer (MN), Joni Ernst (IA), Randy Feenstra (IA), Michelle Fisch- bach (MN), Carlos Giménez (FL), Paul Gosar (AZ), Vicky Hartzler (MO),  Ashley Hinson (IA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS), Jim Inhofe (OK), John Joyce (PA), Trent Kelly (MS), Darin LaHood (IL), Debbie Lesko (AZ), Julia Letlow (LA), Nancy Mace (SC), Tom McClintock (CA), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA), Markwayne Mullin (OK), Rand Paul (KY), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA), Mike Rounds (SD), John Rutherford (FL), María Elvira Salazar (FL), Richard Shelby (AL), John Thune (SD), Pat Toomey (PA), Tommy Tuberville (AL), David Valadao (CA) © 2022 Kwiple.com
Hypocrisy There is a lot of hard-to-explain hypocrisy and rush taking place right now,  and my expeience around politics says that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows. Sheldon Whitehouse, at confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Advertising is not coercive: people are smarter than that @Cam[bridge]Analytica, 11:49 AM - 17 Mar 2018, the company facing federal investigation for its role in the 2016 presidential election and whose motto is “Data-driven behavior change” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say The Attorney General must insure that the administration of justice – the enforcement of the law – is above and away from politics. William Barr, during his confirmation hearings to become Attorney General © 2020 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Because I'm not president. Donald Trump, responding to CNN moderator Kaitlin Collins's question, "So what's different now?" during a May 10, 2023, televised "town hall" meeting after Trump had encouraged Republicans to vote to default on the nation's debt and she had reminded him that he had said, when he  was president, that it was wrong for Democrats to use the prospect of defaulting on it as a negotiating tactic [The audience of staunch Trump supporters responded with peals of laughter and applause at the prospect of ruining the country's credit rating; the loss of 6-8 million jobs; increases in all interest rates; reductions in Social Security/ veterans/other welfare programs; reductions in investor confidence/stock market prices, etc.] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good. Donald Trump, 2019 State of the Union Address © 2019 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say David Duke endorsed me? O.K., all right. I disavow, O.K.?   Donald Trump's “disavowal” of David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I don't blame China. Donald Trump, standing beside Chinese President Xi Jinping to speak to China's leading businessmen, who, fully aware of Trump's repeated claims that they were raping America on trade, gasped and laughed out loud © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I don't know what it means to be complicit. Ivanka Trump © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I find in life,  you can’t let people get away with bullshit. Donald Trump, whose entire career is based on getting away with bullshit © 2024 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I get what you say about my march for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. Tim Murphy, a leading anti-abortion/pro-life legislator, responding to his mistress, who texted him: “You have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Hypocrites say I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem. Mike Pence, 10:08 AM – 8 Oct 2017, on a stunt he planned with Trump that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousand dollars to have him and his staff fly round trip between the West Coast and Indianapolis so that he could be photgraphed at an NFL game standing and saluting while some players kneeled in protest of racism, and then walking out in a huff over their alleged lack of patriotism to be back in time to attend scheduled fundraisers in California © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I want to appear bipartisan. Ralph Drollinger, host of a Trump White House Bible-study group for Cabinet officers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say If you were against President Obama's deficits, and now you are for the Republican deficits, isn't that the very definition of hypocrisy? Rand Paul, who voted for Trump's tax cuts © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say It [an impeachment inquiry into Biden] would occur through a vote on the floor of the People’s House and not through a declaration by one person. Kevin Mccarthy to Breitbart News, 11 days before caving in to pressure from the dregs of the Republican Party — Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elise Stefanik, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, James Comer, Paul Gosar — and unilaterally launching an official impeachment inquiry into Biden on September 12, 2023, without having the House vote on it becaue he knew it wouldn't pass, given opposition from Democrats and moderate Republicans  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say  Maxine [Waters], she's a beauty! I mean she was practically telling people the other day to assault. Can you imagine if I said the things she said? … Horrible what she said. Donald Trump, who often explicitly asks supporters at his rallies to punch out his critics and promises to pay their legal bills  if they're charged with assault  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say The mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth? Donald Trump, who invoked it when asked about adultery during divorce proceedings from Ivana, blew off congressional subpoenas often during his administration and instructed dozens of staff to do the same © 2021 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say My heart goes out to them. Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, on families that lost loved ones on 9/11, before selling the PGA to Saudi Arabia for an arm and a leg, perhaps Adnan Khashoggi's © 2023 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say My warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics. It's not what you're designed for. And don't be intimidated by the Left into taking up causes that put you right in the middle of one of America's greatest political debates. Mitch McConnell, who has spent a career being the best among his Senate colleagues at attracting money from giant corporations and their CEOs, expressing his outrage that some of them stopped contributing to Republicans after the January 6, 2021, insurrection, and joined Democratic-led opposition to Republican-led efforts to pass voting suppresion laws © 2021 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Selective, politically motivated actions have no place in our democracy. Glenn Youngkin, 9:30 AM – Aug 9, 2022, denouncing the FBI's court-ordered search for documents belonging to the National Archives, in a statement that is both patently absurd about politics in a democracy and a classic, selective, politically motivated example of hypocrisy, diverting attention from Bill Barr's reign as Trump's Attorney General, during which he ran the DOJ as if it were Trump's personal lawyer, not the people's © 2022 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. No question about it. The people who stormed this building believed that they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president. And having that belief was a forseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet earth. Mitch McConnell, February 13, 2021, after preventing impeachment 2.0 from starting as long as Trump was still president, and then voting to acquit him because Trump was “constitutionally ineligible for conviction” given that he's no longer president © 2021 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws are needed to stop voter fraud and voting by noncitizens © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws aren't aimed at Democratic voters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Voter ID laws don't suppress voting by minorities and the poor © 2017 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say We have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the FBI files and we need to concentrate on that. Chuck “the Schmuck” Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa and lead sponsor of standalone legislation that made it easier for people adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns and not have their name added to FBI files, commenting on the killing of 17 and wounding of 14 at a Parkland, Florida, high school by a mentally ill ex-student armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle he legally bought off-the-rack at a local gunshop  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old,” when I would NEVER call him “short and fat?”  Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen! Donald Trump, 4:48 PM - 11 Nov 2017 from Vietnam © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Hypocrites say With school canceled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon. Ted Cruz, cutting short his retreat to the Ritz Carlton in Cancún, Mexico, because his home (and constituents' homes) was freezing and under boil water advisories due to a days-long statewide power outage in Texas's electrical system, which doesn't work in cold weather because it isn't weatherized, and can't draw on reserves from other states because it's not connected to the national grid © 2021 Kwiple.com