Hypocrisy confronted

 Democrats and leftists will not face their own hypocrisy.

Vivek calls out media in spectacular fashion

This needs no introduction:

Tell it

This:

Hypocrisy not just on China

Let's Go Brandon criticized president Trump for racism when he blocked travel from China. Now he's doing the exact same thing.  The hypocrisy doesn't end there.  While he's blocking travel from China, it seems that anything that can be done to enhance illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America is good with Democrats. I dunno, allowing in some unabated while blocking others outright seems selective and racist to me.

Censor Bill Gates now!

 Tim Pool tackles Bill Gates and the changing views on COVID (and the hypocrisy inherent therein).

NFL virtue signaling hypocrisy called out

Comedian Bill Burr makes the connection and roasts the NFL or the hypocrisy of their hollow virtue signaling:

Many of these supposedly woke corporations are only in this for the virtue signaling, and in most cases it's a matter of "...don't come after me next!" It's fake. It's hypocrisy in the case of the NFL.

And the solution is not to destroy these corporations as Marxists would have you do.  The solution is to leave politics at the door and let sports be sports.  Let music be music.  Let movies be movies.  Just movies.  They don't need to lecture us.  They are there to entertain, well at least they are supposed to be.  But the left has infected pretty much every part of the culture.  They may be driving us all back to doing more outdoor activities as our only means of escape from their tripe.  Maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Kudos once again to Bill Burr for calling this out.  He's not afraid to not be woke. That's what we need as a role model.

Pelosi don't need no stinking mask

 "Rules for thee and not me" Pelosi to the peasants of congress and America:

When China calls out the U.S. administration's hypocrisy

 Sheesh.  Thanks to Dinesh D'Souza for catching this.

The [removed] administration has no moral authority to lecture China or anyone else because it practices the same forms of tyranny that it deplores in others, and the Chinese are fully aware of these hypocritical double-standards.

Sadly, China is right on this one.

NOTE: The administration name was removed by me out of concerns for their legitimacy. I continue to not recognize the administration formally. Sort of like the U.S. and China do with Taiwan.

Democrats don't want to hold Biden accountable

The cancel culture on the left, clearly does not extend all the way up to their nominee.

Whoa Wait! AOC refusing to pay taxes?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is refusing to pay her taxes?  How un-socialistic of her.  Hypocrisy has never been funnier.

Democrats hypocrisy on president Trump's Baltimore comments

More laughable stuff.  The rats in the story are the Democrats and the media running cover for them:

Democrat hypocrisy effectively reduced to a single picture

N.Y. governor Andrew Cuomo takes part in an anti-gun "die-in" protest, while surrounded by armed guards.  Two-faced hypocrisy. Duplicitous, nanny-state paternalism.

Just, wow.

Gov Cuomo joins students in die-in after they walked out of school in Lower Manhattan. Students chant "enough is enough" about gun violence and school shootings. @wcbs880 pic.twitter.com/Wj7jn2lbzJ

— Peter Haskell (@peterhaskell880) March 14, 2018

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has more.

Google: Do as we say, not as we do

Proof for liberals that those who claim to espouse your values do not actually share your values comes again; this time in the form of Google duplicity;

Google has spent much of the past 72 hours insisting its commitment to diversity is “unequivocal” after the internal publication and subsequent leak of an anti-diversity polemic by a Google engineer. The unidentified software engineer argued, among other things, that biological differences between men and women account for the extreme gender imbalance at Google and other technology companies.

...Google might prefer the discussion to end there, but the reality is there is a lot more to say about the company’s commitment to diversity.

The public relations blitz may be a corporate necessity given the virulent backlash against the document by many of Google’s own employees. On Monday night, Bloomberg reported that the engineer said he had been fired; Google declined to comment on individual employee cases.

But public commitments to diversity from Google executives do not tally with the company’s workforce data.

Window Dressing?

Google’s workforce is, by its own accounting, 69% male and just 2% African American. Just 20% of technical jobs are held by women. Google may be unequivocal in its “belief” about diversity, but the figures make its shortcomings clear. The company tends to hire white and Asian men over women and other racial minorities.

What a terrible indictment of the liberal tech giant. Or is it? The point in sharing this story is not that Google is not diverse enough - I expect a huge swath of progressive sites to focus on that, and while they may well be right, it's not relevant to my points. My points are twofold; (1) don't necessarily believe Google as an example, when and they espouse open borders on morale grounds because they don't necessarily do themselves what they demand others do and/or (2) question the foundation of the story - maybe the percentage of the population who go into technical roles who are female is only 30% and Google may not be out of line with the industry as a whole. In that case it may not their fault if there are just not enough females applying to work for Google.

In other words, don't just swallow media story lines without actually thinking about what's behind them first. If the population of America did that, there would be far less progressives running around trying to destroy the country.

Wait, what now? (or Leftist Hypocrisy in America)

My how the left's visions of Russia have changed. Call it evolution if you like, to me it reeks of hypocrisy, combined with the hubris that no one will call them out on it.

Do you recall during the 2012 election cycle we got this lecture from then president Obama to then candidate Mitt Romney?


He wasn't alone - the media wallowed in the glory of the Obama putdown of Mitt Romney. And this was coming from trom the guy who said this (when he didnèt realize he had a hot mic):


But now we have this excellent assessment from the (ironically progressive leftist) Humanist Report on the state of the left today vis a vis Russia.

What changed for the left? Just Trump. They lost an election the knew with certitude that they were going to win.  As a result, their reality shifts to meet the needs of their current argument. How convenient. 

I'm not so naive as to believe Russia's interests don't include undermining geo-political adversaries like the United States. I'm sure the Russians regularly try to hack or influence what happens in America. I'm sure president Trump knows that too. But that's not the concern here, the concern is the hypocrisy of Democrats who mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for worry about Russia and now see Russia as the biggest boogeyman on earth.

Progressive Socialist Hypocrisy

Recently I had an epiphany about socialism yesterday.  I have a former boss, whom I would consider a friend, who happens to be a socialist.  He doesn't just talk the talk, he supports co-ops of all kinds, he votes socialist and always takes the socialist/progressive side in any argument or discussion.  He's consistent.  He's also a nice guy, to be fair.  But yesterday I noticed something that I've seen in other socialist people I've known and I think the consistency is enough to say it's a pattern. It may not be universal, but certainly it is common among those of the socialist/progressive ilk.

By way of background, for decades the socialist crowd here in Toronto have argued for more public transit.  Toronto has a great transit system..for 1973.   They've argued that we should move away from cars and to public transit.  It's better for the environment, it's more egalitarian, cheaper than roads, blah...blah...BLAH.

Downtown Toronto has a relatively decent coverage of subways.  The suburbs, not so much.  But since the socialists all live downtown in the city core area, they've suddenly become fiscally conservative.  They think spending money on more subways is an expensive boondoggle.  Instead, those in the suburbs, which represent a pretty significant population, should be satisfied with more surface routes - light rail like streetcars, or buses.  

I've had to commute from the suburbs.  It's dreadful - the driving is bad, and the light rail commute was cramped, prone to breakdowns, slow, and just basically inadequate (to be kind).  But the socialists have the transit they want.

And there's the epiphany.  It isn't really about helping others, it's about helping others collectively, until they get what they want, and then the taps get turned of.  Socialism for me and not for thee. Hypocrisy.

I am honestly not surprised, but it's good to have some empirical evidence to back up what we all know.  As for me being two-faced on public transit, I'm all for more roads, but in most cities there's no will for that option.  Anything to reduce gridlock is welcome respite. In a recent post I also pointed out that working from home and telecommuting will reduce the need for mass transit and more roads.  But we're not there yet. So no real hypocrisy, but if you want to challenge me on that, I'd be happy to expound on it.

The Tea Leaves on a GOP convention revolt

Many people, including some I know are arguing that the GOP delegates at the Republican National Convention should vote their conscience and not vote for Donald Trump.  Many of these same people were the ones asking the Republican National Committee to re-write the rules on the nomination process to allow delegates to not vote for Trump.

Set aside the hypocrisy that many of these people were deriding the Democrats for their super delegates being an undemocratic aberration from true democracy.  I wonder if they realize that without the super delegate allocation Hillary Clinton still does not have enough votes to win the Democratic nomination.  

Set aside the fact that in a crowded field of obstinate non-Trump contenders who remained in the race and split the anyone-but-Trump vote, Trump did win the nomination among the primary electorate. It's not the first time the front runner did not exceed a plurality.  This is how the system works. Moving the goalposts  95% of the way into the race is also something conservatives have for decades railed against the Democratic party for doing regularly.  Again, hypocrisy.

Thursday Hillary Bash - Hypocrisy on Minimum Wage vs. Unpaid Interns

A video from back in June, focusing on Hillary Clinton's abysmal hypocrisy on the minimum wage, when she doesn't even pay her own campaign's interns.  I'm sharing it now, because the problem in her campaign still exists.

At some point she should have to answer for this.

Anonymous wrong on KKK memberships

The group Anonymous clearly has a political agenda that is pretty far left of center. So far left, they can't be bothered to stick to the facts, and even gone so far as attacking some pretty liberal Democrats. They've supposedly outed a number of prominent U.S. politicians who are members of the Klu Klux Klan (aka the KKK). Except there have been a swath of denials.  That's to be expected and Anonymous claim they will release their data.

Obviously they have confidence in their data.  But clearly there are problems with it. Here's one example - the Mayor of Knoxville who happens to be facing an election today. She responded to the list's publication.

I’m not even sure this is worth responding to, but for the record: There is a list circulating online purporting to “out” elected officials as members of the KKK. For reasons unfathomable to me or anyone who knows me, my name is on the list. Given my background, my interracial family, my public record and my personal beliefs, this would be hilarious except that it is probably being seen by a lot of people who have no idea who I am.

So, just to be clear, for anyone who doesn’t know me: Don’t be ridiculous. I began my political career working for the rights of farm workers with Cesar Chavez. I have spent decades working for causes of social justice and equality...

oops.

Now, this is not to say that Democrats can't be racist. The most racist comments about president Obama came from Bill Clinton. And former Senator Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK.  But that's not the point with these unproven allegations.  Here's the problem with Anonymous - they're outing people, likely very erroneously and doing so from behind a mask. They don't want to be outed themselves, and that's hypocritical. So in summary:  probably wrong, and definitely hypocritical.

Anonymous garbage.

Hillary hypocrisy

Hillary Clinton unveiled a platform to reduce America's carbon footprint.  A couple of hours later, this:

Smoking gun via America Rising. And the description of the hypocrisy via another youtube user, All Across:

Just hours after Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential campaign's push to solve global warming through an aggressive carbon-cutting plan, she sauntered up the steps of a 19-seat private jet in Des Moines, Iowa. The aircraft, a Dassault model Falcon 900B, burns 347 gallons of fuel per hour. And like all Dassault business jets, Hillary's ride was made in France.

Smoking gun indeed - and the smoke smells like jet exhaust.

Wednesday Warren Warning - Hypocrisy

Elizabeth Warren, hypocritically playing to her base today, criticized the former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for accepting a multi-million dollar investment bank job.  While she was at it, she threw Hillary Clinton under the bus.

"This is wrong," Warren said in regard to Cantor's new role as vice chairman and managing director at Moelis & Co. "People work in Washington and, man, they hit that revolving door with a speed that would blind you." She went on to claim that banks hire politicians like Cantor "not because they bring great expertise and insight, but because they’re selling access back into their former colleagues who are still writing policy."

Asked whether Hillary Clinton is also too cozy with Wall Street, Warren didn't exactly give the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner a pass. "I worry a lot about the relationship between all of our regulators, government, Wall Street," she said. "I worry across the board."

Let's get one thing straight, it's not wrong. It's the free market. In a backhanded way she intimates that Cantor has no value to add aside from his political connections. But aside from the tackiness of speaking ill of someone departing, how about the hypocrisy involved?

Elizabeth Warren has accepted jobs based on a phony heritage. Elizabeth Warren is worth millions (but only about a dozen or so). And make no mistake, she played it softer with Hillary Clinton, but there was still a jab. Warren is going to run for president or perhaps hopes to be a VP on a Clinton ticket.