re: #440 Belafon

*Accusation of rape against a Republican*
GOP: Look at the Democrats trying to feed children. How dare they.
*Democrat touches a woman’s shoulder*
Democrats: Look at the stupid shit he’s doing.

When the goal is to get as many negative reactions about a politician as possible, which one do you think the media is going to go after?

If that was even the actual metric they operated off of, that’d be bad enough. But they actively run apologia after apologia for the GOP while grinding their foot on every single minor misdeed a Dem does. The fact that our more consistent standards are weaponized against us like a bludgeon just makes it feel like we can never win, and even if we tried to adopt scorched earth tactics to counter the GOP’s own, it’d never work because we’ll just get blame for both our sins and the GOPs own and they’ll get treated even further like the saintliest super-motherfucking god-touched heroes forever.