My god the Irony and Hypocrisy of this new Biden administration.

Lets see, we have a press conference, on federal land, in a federal building, discussing how important Bidens new mask mandate is that makes it illegal not to wear a mask on federal land or in federal buildings...

and yet, the speaker isnt wearing a mask, literally as she explains why we the public will get arrested for doing the very thing she is doing as she announces it, and the very same thing Biden did just the day before.

Biden is and always has been above the law and this is just more of the same, take away everyone else's rights, but of course it never applies to Biden.

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-asks-why-biden-001201825.html

#Biden #uspol #COVID #Corona #Coronavirus

@freemo #Biden often wears a mask when it's not needed (no one is near him + he's been vaccinated)-- but he does it to lead by proper example, as any responsible & competent leader should.

@koherecoWatchdog

1) He isnt leading by example by passing a law and then breaking it

2) the speaker is not leading by example by reciting the law while breaking it

3) the law makes no exceptions for people who are vaccinated, this is no excuse

4) the law makes no exception for not having people near you at the time, this is also no excuse

Sorry but not a single one of those explanations are valid in the least.

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog

1) Executive orders are not law.

2) The order makes several exceptions and more broadly puts judgement in the hands of department leadership.

3) It *is* bad optics for the press secretary and the President.

4) I didn't see you complaining about any of the hundreds of examples of shocking hypocrisy during the last administration, and this thing is tiny in comparison.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-protecting-the-federal-workforce-and-requiring-mask-wearing/

^ the actual executive order for reference

@finity

There wasnt one order there were two, you only linked the second (and the less damning of the two). The first covers far more than what you mentioned (planes, federal land, etc, with few or no exceptions listed):

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/21/executive-order-promoting-covid-19-safety-in-domestic-and-international-travel/

> 4) I didn’t see you complaining about any of the hundreds of examples of shocking hypocrisy during the last administration,

Not sure what the last president has to do with anything, but you clearly weren't looking then. I repeatedly and consistently mentioned the last president was horrific in countless ways and never once supported the last president. so not sure what your on about.

@koherecoWatchdog

@finity

An example of one of the countless trump criticisms I employed over the years btw:

The first one is me literally claiming Trump was the worst politician in US history.. not sure what else you expect from me in terms of criticising the other side:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/103811190911142333

https://qoto.org/@freemo/102447409547647736

https://qoto.org/users/freemo/statuses/101632934681689341

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog the one you linked is primarily focused on travel, says it requires masks to be worn "in compliance with CDC guidelines" (which is not as strict as you suggest), and again the EO gives authority to heads of agencies.

I guess I came at this from the perspective - if you are complaining about this tiny non-hypocrisy, why weren't you complaining your fingers off recently. If this is a problem, your fingers should have melted down under the stress of complaining about every thing larger than this under the last guy. But I see on a re-read that you were mostly complaining about Biden himself.

@finity

I cant think of a single hypocrisy that Trump commited I didnt complain about. Can you name a few examples of hypocrisies from Trump which I supported or didnt mention?

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog yeah, I'm not going to search all your posts. I certainly admit I haven't read them all. From his prolific golfing after comments about Obama's, his hiring of his family members after the his executive branch instituted rules about nepotism, his tightening of chain migration despite his wife's situation, his "we will not tell people about troop plans" then announcing them, mishandling of classified after criticism of the past admin, tolerating and excusing clear instances of corruption despite running on "drain the swamp", and of course his own hypocrisy about requiring mask wearing from staff then clearly violating even right after getting COVID... There were instances of these classes of hypocritical behavior almost daily.

@finity

I have quite literally mentioned every single one of those and criticized him for it over the years. so again, not really sure what your on about, or what any of this has to do with biden.. He has been in office all of 3 days, and has his first fuckup, Trump was in office 4 years and had many fuckups.. I can and will call out each of them as they happen.

The real question is, why are **you** so worked up about someone criticizing a misstep which you even agreed as such and what does any of that have to do with Trump, which somehow, mysteriously, is your main talking point in a post about Biden that Trump had nothing to do with.

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog because it is as if you are purposely blowing this out of proportion.

For instance - you keep suggesting he broke a law. Not a law.

@finity

Never once said he broke a law or even an EO, his actions were before the EO. I did say he is being a hypocrite by not behaving in the way that the very rule he passed a day later forbids, a rule that has no business being passed in the first place.

I called him a hypocrite that was to be the end of it.. browning it out of proportion is spending hours going back and forth about how i downtalk trump enough to allow me to criticize biden or some nonsense.

He doesn't even **need** to issue an EO to be a hypocrite, even if he just vocalized the opinion that people on federal land and in federal buildings should wear a mask and then not do it he would be a hypocrite... it really isnt a particularly horrific word and it isnt particularly hard to be one.

@koherecoWatchdog

@finity @koherecoWatchdog

FYI for those in the thread who erroneously claimed biden was far away from people at the memorial when he wasnt wearing a mask... obviously not.

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog how many of those people are his family?

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog also, the Lincoln memorial is basically outdoors. The CDC guidelines specify that that's one of the safer ways to be mask free. And (at least the travel guidance EO) says to mask up in accordance with CDC guidelines.

@finity

Not when your a foot away from people, really grasping at straws to excuse his own hypocrisy. Its kinda hard to deny he is a hypocrite on this one.

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog I'm not denying hypocrisy.

I'm saying, you're blowing this very far out of proportion. Most would consider a photo at a nearly outdoors location with family, in an otherwise distanced area, to be a small violation of mask wearing-ness. And the EOs are not as strict as you pretend.

@finity

You:
> I’m not denying hypocrisy.

My original post:
> My god the Irony and Hypocrisy of this new Biden administration.

If your not denying hypocrisy, and my original post was claiming he was being hypocritical, where is the "blowing out of proportion" part? You are literally saying the same exact thing I said

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog nah man, there's like - a proportion - and then there's like, puffing a story full of suggestion such that it's no longer in that.

@finity

huh? a proportion of what? suggestions of what? What are you even talking about?

@koherecoWatchdog

@freemo @koherecoWatchdog

> I’m saying, you’re blowing this very far out of proportion.

@finity

We literally made the same claim of hypocrisy, i added no perprotion to the hypocrisy or in any way gave it a scale, so again, no idea what your talking about when you literally agreed with the exact thing i said in my OP.

@koherecoWatchdog