The GOP and its supporting base have lost the plot. There was not a peep from them back when Bush et al outed a CIA agent, an act that would have the same crowd screaming treason if the current administration had done so. Then there's the email "scandal" of Bush WH staffers that didn't garner much attention. Oh, there's also Colin Powell's email issue, although no server involvement. And of course, the cooked up Iraq evidence that led to an invasion that ultimately cost 4,500 American soldier lives and created Daesh.
I was thinking exactly the same throughout the entire broadcast. Such double standards, obviously they are to be expected, but that doesn't make it any less shocking quite how madly hypocritical they are. Surely they all must know they are being like that too? Some of them must be pretty well educated folks that obviously just have an agenda, and not all as thick as pig shit? Also didn't Condoleezza Rice make similar mistakes regarding emails as well as Colin Powell?
@langster I know what you mean man. I have to deal with this stuff on a day to day basis... I live in Gowdy's district. I can't have a decent conversation with 90% of the people I work with about this stuff because they get all red in the face mad about it.
You have my sincere sympathy for that mate, I can only imagine how frustrating that must be. I can only equate that to talking to people I know here about the recent EU referendum, 90% of the people I know, customers in my pub and family and friends all voted to leave, that frustrates the hell out of me too, but that's just a one off really, it will either be sorted soon, or not really at all. Then we just go back to normal discussions and aside from the really right wing Conservatives most people are in basic agreement about most issues, and most are what you would call liberal on lots of things so it's always easy to find common ground with most people aside from the extreme right wingers, the very ignorant or the purely hateful racist idiots. I guess it's mainly financial issues that separate most here and make them Conservative voters. For instance, every single person I know and have ever met, even the most right wing Conservatives all agree on wanting the NHS, all agree on basic forms of benefits, most agree and accept abortion laws, most WANT euthanasia or assisted suicide laws changed, and I only know a couple of people against same sex marriage or adoption, and that's purely because of their religious views and nothing else. So I think even most of our Conservatives here would be classed as Liberal to most Republicans, especially on what you would call moral/ethical views.
Saying that, I only really talk politics here, and with a couple of friends. I try to avoid it most other times, and we have a general rule in our pub to not allow talk about religion, football or politics, although obviously it's not always followed, it usually is. I'm really quite glad I've been off sick throughout all the referendum shit though, I would have got extremely upset about that at work, and I bet there's a lot of talk about the current Tory party leadership contest at the moment, I'd keep well out of that too. But even still, I would still be able to have a decent conversation about anything like that, even the people who I disagree with the most, so again I empathise with your situation, that must really suck to be at such complete odds and have so little common ground with so many other people.
