I agree with Chockamo: Republicans live their entire lives in bad faith.  It’s like watching hundreds of bad boyfriends sniveling to each other.  It doesn’t matter what actually happened; they’ll explain how they were completely justified and not guilty of doing anything wrong.  “Yeah, nailing my ex’s doors shut and then burning the house down sounds bad on the surface, but, you know, she was such a bitch about it.”  And all the others in arm’s reach will defend him.

It’s a bro-code thing.  If you’re in the GOP and you see another Republican do something disgraceful, Republicans expect you to defend them.  And whoa, if Trump is today’s douchebag (‘cause, you know, when is he not?), the pussy-grabber gets a full pass and a group hug, no matter what.

And I’m not kidding.  It doesn’t matter what Trump does.  When the President of the damn United States gave the country a faked-up, Sharpe-brand weather report and terrified a whole state?  Super hunky-dory.  When he attacked a Gold-star family – on television – because they were Muslim?  Hey, just Trump being Trump, they said.  He didn’t really mean it.  (No, he really, really did mean it.)  This is a jerk who grabs small kids from helpless, desperate families and puts them in cages.  He deports decorated veterans and abandons our allies to die in the desert.  Definitely not what I call a stand-up guy. 

And the Bad Faith Republican party backs him up, no matter what.  Republicans shift positions daily, then try to gaslight us that they always stood there.  If this spot gets washed away, they move over there.  If any possible land gets washed out to sea, they’ll float there in midair, held up by their unending bile, insisting that Trump’s televised confession wasn’t what we all saw with our own eyes.

And I’m tired about hearing newspeople tell us that the Republicans – the people who feed them their news tidbits – are, in fact, sympathetic, ethical people when you talk to them off the record.  “They’re as troubled as anyone.”  How self-serving, and I don’t fucking care.  When every goddamn Republican shuts their mouths and goes along with caging children and letting our allies die, they’re forever chosen to be utter douchebags in every way that matters.  Fuck ‘em all.

It’s not just for Trump; he’s just the stupidest leader they’ve ever chosen.  (And that’s saying something.)  Even before him, Republicans would simply lie about anything and everything.  I know why the media, who need Republican sources, make excuses.  I can’t figure why Democrats are so miserably wimpy about it.  They keep pretending that Republicans aren’t really… you know, Republicans: liars, child–abusers, rapists, wife-beaters, and swindlers.  Dems keep talking about how, at some impossible level of evidence and testimony, Republicans will stop lying, admit the truth, and become thoughtful statesmen.

Dudes and dudettes: I love you and value your service, but you need to get your collective heads out of your asses.  They’ll call you crazy socialists no matter what your policies are.  Give them 80% of the airtime, veto power, and a free beer machine, and they’ll still call the proceedings biased and unfair.  For fuck’s sake, Trump called the Constitution emoluments clauses “phony!”   It doesn’t matter what you say or do; Republicans will use the same idiotic attacks regardless.

I mean, Jesus, it’s not even a surprise when Republicans talk shit about you.  And it’ll be the same damn crap no matter what you do!  It doesn’t matter if you’re reasonable or unreasonable, sane or barking mad.

So, you know, kiss them off.  For god’s sake, stop fucking cowering and grow a pair! Republicans are liars, and everything they say is in bad faith.  Is that a tough choice?  You can’t stop them from lying about you. Don’t accommodate or compromise with liars; leave them in their cesspool.

Just say might you mean and do what seems right. Should be doable.