Column: Twice-impeached Trump, GOP bemoan ‘cancel culture.’ If they’re canceled, why are they still so noisy?
I hear the GOP leadership and news outlets whining a lot right now about the evils of 'cancel culture' because apparently they don't like being held accountable for their malicious words and their immoral actions. Apparently they want to be able to consistently and knowingly lie to the public and incite violence without suffering any public consequences.
Trump decries 'cancel culture,' but he has participated in it
Besides the fact that such whining is *ridiculously* hypocritical, the fact of the matter is that Trump and the GOP leadership have been systematically and maliciously engaging in outright lying to the public about wide spread voter fraud, and inciting violence with such lies, and using Facebook and Twitter to do it. Trump and the GOP leadership have lied for months about voting machine companies conspiring with foreign governments to deprive Trump of his "landslide victory". They engaged themselves in a malicious and systematic undermining of our democracy, resulting in *mob violence*. Now however they don't seem to like the public fallout of their immoral actions.
Evidently Fox news and the GOP leadership wish to avoid the inevitable fallout of their actions. They whine about Trump being banned from various social media outlets, despite the fact that he's been blatantly violating their rules for *years*, spreading absurd conspiracy theories and blatantly trying to use such platforms to incite violence and overthrow our Republic.
Please! Trump and his co-conspirators in the House and Senate are getting *exactly* what they deserve. They aren't being 'cancelled', they're simply experiencing the inevitable public fallout for inciting violence, lying repeatedly to the public, and breaking the rules of various public platforms. The proprietors of online platforms have every right, and they have a public duty to moderate the content of their platforms.
CF has posted "rules" too, and if those rules are violated, there are in fact "consequences". That's not "cancel culture", that's just life.
The GOP's new "cancel culture victim" routine is both hypocritical and pathetic IMO.
I hear the GOP leadership and news outlets whining a lot right now about the evils of 'cancel culture' because apparently they don't like being held accountable for their malicious words and their immoral actions. Apparently they want to be able to consistently and knowingly lie to the public and incite violence without suffering any public consequences.
Trump decries 'cancel culture,' but he has participated in it
Besides the fact that such whining is *ridiculously* hypocritical, the fact of the matter is that Trump and the GOP leadership have been systematically and maliciously engaging in outright lying to the public about wide spread voter fraud, and inciting violence with such lies, and using Facebook and Twitter to do it. Trump and the GOP leadership have lied for months about voting machine companies conspiring with foreign governments to deprive Trump of his "landslide victory". They engaged themselves in a malicious and systematic undermining of our democracy, resulting in *mob violence*. Now however they don't seem to like the public fallout of their immoral actions.
Evidently Fox news and the GOP leadership wish to avoid the inevitable fallout of their actions. They whine about Trump being banned from various social media outlets, despite the fact that he's been blatantly violating their rules for *years*, spreading absurd conspiracy theories and blatantly trying to use such platforms to incite violence and overthrow our Republic.
Please! Trump and his co-conspirators in the House and Senate are getting *exactly* what they deserve. They aren't being 'cancelled', they're simply experiencing the inevitable public fallout for inciting violence, lying repeatedly to the public, and breaking the rules of various public platforms. The proprietors of online platforms have every right, and they have a public duty to moderate the content of their platforms.
CF has posted "rules" too, and if those rules are violated, there are in fact "consequences". That's not "cancel culture", that's just life.
The GOP's new "cancel culture victim" routine is both hypocritical and pathetic IMO.