So we all understand: this is the difference between

[PCIntern]

allowable national perceptions of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

Democratic Party: Gary Hart was by most accounts the odds-on favorite to be the nominee for the Presidency in 1988. A photo was leaked of a hot young woman sitting on this married man’s lap. Done. Finished. Kaput. Instantly. No discussion, no maybes. Just gone. Vanished like Keiser Soze.

Republican Party: Donald Trump. Admitted adulterer. Married three times and cheated on every wife. Criminal convictions numbering 34. On tape saying he grabs women by their genitalia. Known to frequent parties and homes with underaged females and accused of having relations with same. Owner of beauty pageants specifically featuring underage females and literally brags about walking into dressing rooms containing naked females in this age range. Found liable for sexually Assaulting a woman in a department store. Stated that avoiding STD’s in the 1970’s was his “personal Vietnam”. And much much more. Elected President of these United States not once, wherein he doomed over a million individuals to death by lying about the severity of a pandemic, but twice.


I am aware that this is the tip of his criminally perverted rap sheet, but the contrast between the two individuals named here is, well, prodigious.

We may summarize as follows: the old adage was: Don’t stick your dick into crazy. The new saying for a Democrat is: Don’t even THINK about sticking your dick into anyone or anything. The new saying for Republicans is: Anything goes, have a great time.

(Postscript: the I was lectured to was: Don’t stick your dick into crazy unless you’re willing to awakened one morning and find the word “Betrayer” written on your car in dog s—t. Truer words never spoken. )

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Very well put, my dear PCIntern!

I have nothing to add to your wisdom.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Don't forget

Al Franken: elected to Senate and doing a bang-up job until some photos surfaced of him with his hand in a questionable place on a young woman's bosom. This was amid the "me too" uproar and he was hounded out of the Senate bu his own Democratic fellows.

Matt Gaetz: accused, with some pretty good proof, of having sex with underage girls, Also some questions about the relationship with his "adopted son" Nestor. Crickets from the RepubliKKKans, and he was very nearly our AG. *shudder* (although would he have been any worse than Pam Blondie?)

[Clouds Passing]

3. GQP motto..... We think with our dick first

[11 Bravo]

8. Although not having been able to see it for over 30 years, Trump's not certain that he actually HAS a dick.

[unblock]

4. Name a democratic scandal, odds are Donnie's done it many times worse.

A small number of retroactively classified (most at a very low level and essentially none marked as classified) emails passed through a server that Hillary had set up for non-classified state department work. Very tenuous tie to a Hillary decision, no known security leak, no known harm. No indication that anyone involved should have known the info would later be considered classified.

Donnie stole government property blatantly marked as top secret and refused to return it. He stored it improperly and shared some of it with random hotel guests. Never mind that he's the most easily blackmailable person ever, with shady ties to Russia and other adversaries, and a documented history of paying for silence.

Dukakis was buried over Willie Horton. *one* person who was a repeat offender. Meanwhile Donnie has pardoned 1500 insurrectionists and other unrepentant criminals, quite a few of which have committed more crimes.

Hart is a good example too. And even that was a setup, lee Atwater confessed he basically rigged it, making sure a donor's boat named "monkey business" was involved. Zero evidence that hart and rice did anything inappropriate beyond that one photo.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Clinton's "I didn't inhale" v. W's cocaine use.

In Clinton's case, it didn't detail his career. But the folks who lost their shit over it were utterly silent about shrub's far more serious drug use. This crap never stops.

Irony and hypocrisy. The GOP mating call.

[RainCaster]

6. The GOP is...

Accepting of Trump's infidelitys -
The Party Of Family Values

Welcoming a leader with 34 felony convictions -
The Party Of Law And Order

Worshipping the business acumen of 6 bankruptcys -
The Party Of Fiscal Responsibility

[calimary]

9. THIS!!!

[Torchlight]

7. Their convictions are built on whatever happens to be convenient and profitable.

Thirty years ago, GOP leaders found it useful to appear sanctimonious while their base acted crude and clownish. Now, it’s more profitable for the leaders to play the clowns and let their supporters handle the sanctimony.

This is precisely what Shakespeare was conveying with, 'tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage, and pious action we do sugar over the devil himself.'

[BaronChocula]

10. Lemme update the perception key

Democratic Party: Most significant list of bipartisan legislation in decades including infrastructure, domestic technology manufacturing, and lowered costs for prescriptions. Expanding NATO in the face of Russian aggression in Europe.

republican party: Grabs women by the _____. Leads an insurrection. Steals top secret files.

When your team looks like PICTURE A in America, you get all the doubt and blame. You get none of the passes or credit. When your team looks like PICTURE B in America, you get all the credit and passes. You get none of the doubt or blame. And you're assumed to be better at handling the economy and foreign policy


PICTURE A

PICTURE B