Some Republican politicians were caught using private email servers. Why is there not a public cry for their heads like there was for Hilarys?

Classic example of “do as I say, not as I do”.

Hypocrisy plain and simple.

He who rules can change the rules.

I am waiting for a rep/con to answer this question with, well Hilary did it so what is the big deal.

Because someone deliberately, cynically, and self-servingly prompted and led that outcry among people so dazzled and infatuated that they’d have cheered or booed anything he told them to. It wasn’t a public outcry. It was a revved-up stadium-full-of-fans outcry. Without that prompting, most of them probably would have just shrugged. E-mail? Who cares? They don’t have any security in their own lives, these folks, and what’s the big deal?

Looking for something—anything—that you can use against an opponent is very different from taking stock of their actions against some standard of ethics or custom. You can grab the smallest thing, and it doesn’t even have to be true; but once it’s been converted into a catchphrase and/or a snarky nickname, it’s going to be difficult to erase.

Nobody is standing in a stacked stadium now yelling “Lock them up.” The Democrats have the same dilemma as always: either behave as despicably as the low-roaders or show a little more dignity and self-restraint (even if just a very little) and look weak.

The cry for Hilary’s head came from Trump. It was another very low blow in Trump’s despicable election campaign. We don’t want western democracies to sink to such a level. Don’t vote for Trump again.

Give it time, Squeaky. I was railing about the Russian thing for months in aaaaaaargs with my friend Cruiser before the mainstream media finally got to it.

Because there’s a double standard.

Hypocrisy 101

But I thought they were just private email accounts, not servers? I’m pretty sure Kushner didn’t use a private server.

Because it was never actually about her emails.

One reason there is less agitation over the email revelations is the simple fact that they barely stick out in the unprecedented pileup of scum laden corruption on the part of Trump’s slimeball entourage. The naked turpitude driving the revolving door of nonstop scandals and assembly line forced resignations is topped only by the sheer stupidity and slapstick ineptitude on the part of the participants. It’s a sort of unfathomable never ending farce that drags on interminably before an audience now dulled through repetition beyond a state of indifference. There are just too many scandals and blunders galloping by at a pace so frenetic that close attention induces a sort sort of lethargic hypnosis in those forced to witness. It’s as though Trump and his clown college of sleazy bunglers is out to prove that the public will adapt to anything.

Do any of you have a guess as to how many people have thus far been fired or forced to resign from the current administration?

Far more than the past several administrations I would guess, but that is just a guess.

@SQUEEKY2 More to come

Trump has swamped the record books when it comes to debasing the office of President.

The thing that bugs me, other than the simple hypocrisy, is they don’t acknowledge it. “Oh, it’s different!” Fuck you! Either say you were wrong with Hillary, or you are wrong now!

@filmfann Does any politician especially a conservative one ever acknowledge their fuck ups?
They usually just point to the other side of the room and say yeah well they did this or that so mine wasn’t that bad type thing.

@stanleybmanly . Trump said he would “drain the swamp.”... ~

and instead infested it with his reprehensible cronies.

Trump is in a roundabout way draining the swamp. The Don is such a powerful scum magnet that the great bulk of his retinue amounts to a crowd distinguished primarily for its corrupt instincts and uniform lack of wit. The rogues’ gallery of defectives facilitates the elevation of vermin to supposedly public service. And it is in the public spotlight that the inevitable warts of inept self aggrandizement are quickly exposed, resulting in the disgrace and speedy dispatch of the bungling clowns. Trump is draining the swamp through the tedious process of appointing its more foul and stinky occupants to positions in his government. It may well be that Trump’s great legacy to public service will be the elimination of dozens of criminal dullards from access to the levers of government.

Yeah. He’s so anomalous, in every way presidential, who knows what will happen…

Hillary billary dock the dems gonna git yer guns!

Many politicians use private e-mail servers. It is not forbidden. What IS forbidden is using private, unapproved servers to send/receive classified materials. Hillary used hers for everything, regardless of what was in the emails. I would say that if any politician, Republican, Democrat, or Independent were to do the same, they would be just as guilty and should be prosecuted as well.