We’re All Hypocrites. Some Worse Than Others

Earlier this week I got a mailer from the Republican Party of Minnesota. On the cover it read, “You Don’t Know Joe.” Then on the inside it told me that Biden ran for president in 1987 but dropped out because he caught heat for plagiarizing a speech. Then he ran again in 2007 but dropped out because he said something in a debate that was racist. Then it said something that he said in this election cycle that didn’t really make sense. I think it was saying he was racist again. Then on the back fold it told me that (because of these things) I can’t let Joe Biden become out president.

It’s funny to me that they chose to go after Biden for plagiarizing a speech 33 years ago—like when Melania mimicked Michelle Obama’s speech a few years back. It’s also funny that they’d key in on a few racist things Biden has said, likely, unintentionally—unlike Trump’s long history of actual, aggressive racism.

Today I got a mailer from the same MN GOP that misquoted Joe Biden saying, “If I were president I would roll back the reopening of schools.” 1. It’s October and schools have either opened or are doing remote learning. 2. Trump’s failure throughout this pandemic is the reason why we’re where we are. 3. I Googled that line and didn’t find it (but I did find this). And the mailer said nothing about what Trump would do if he were president—wait, he is president and he’s done nothing except prove that even the most protected and insulated person in this country can contract this virus if he’s incompetent enough (which, he is).