Crash Course: The trouble with GOP hypocrisy: Why Jessa Duggar's abortion and Bill Lee's drag aren't "gotchas"

Laws banning drag and abortion were always meant to be selectively enforced against those the Christian right hates [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5GZTP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvc2tyajhzcW01bC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZhNm5yZ2t3bXpXA3NwY0IKZABT4QFk6mhkeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5GZTP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbXlmaThvN2t1bS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZhNm5yZ2t3bXombGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZABT4QFk6mhkeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). The trouble with GOP hypocrisy: Why Jessa Duggar's abortion and Bill Lee's drag aren't "gotchas" Like many a professional opinion-haver who has been at it a long time, I grow weary of "Republicans are hypocrites" discourse. This has, of course, been a demonstrable truth for a very long time now, yet it never seems to move the needle. The party of "family values" is in the thrall of a thrice-divorced chronic adulterer who bragged about how he likes to "grab them by the pussy." Clearly, being seen as hypocrites doesn't bother the vast majority of Republican politicians or voters. If anything, they probably like how their bad faith "triggers" the liberals. And yet, I can't quite blow off two recent stories about the depraved depths of Republican hypocrisy: Right wing reality TV star Jessa Duggar Seewald terminating a pregnancy, and photos surfacing of anti-drag Republican politicians wearing women's clothes. In both cases, it's not just that the people involved are massive hypocrites. Republicans love to make noble claims about their intentions as if they care about "protecting life" or "protecting children." In reality, as these stories show, their main goal is policing people's personal lives and self-expression based on gender. [Read the rest from Amanda Marcotte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5GZTP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHltYzNmenhsai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZhNm5yZ2t3bXombGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZABT4QFk6mhkeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images/Salon) Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants you to laugh at her. In fact, your laughter and mocking are among the Georgia Republican's greatest weapons. Laughter is a type of dismissive behavior. Moreover, many people laugh when they are scared, hysterical or in denial. To laugh at someone is to not take them seriously. Laughter is also a way of gratifying one's ego and asserting some type of superiority. When one laughs or mocks a person they generally assume that the other person cares or is somehow vulnerable to such acts. Marjorie Taylor Greene wore a white dress to Biden's State of the Union address in an attempt to look like "the Chinese spy balloon". People laughed at her. She heckled President Biden during his State of the Union address. People laughed at and condemned her tacky and crass behavior. Marjorie Taylor Greene does not care. 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Maybe the next evolution of man, if we don't blow ourselves up, will include the ability to better detect and isolate bullshit. It is, after all, a survival issue. 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Their cause — or so it seemed — was protecting the whales: photos from the rally show demonstrators waving signs reading "Save the Whales," some adorned with images of humpback whales. At first glance, this gathering appeared to be a boilerplate environmental protest, one in which activists were demanding [environmental protections for whales](~/AASU4wA~/RgRl5GZTP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbG9lcjg0OTRhNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZhNm5yZ2t3bXombGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZABT4QFk6mhkeVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Yet curiously, protesters' signs were also peppered with anti-wind turbine rhetoric — not what one might expect among a conference of environmental activists. One person in the crowd held a sign that read: "Windmills at sea DUMB." 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