I am not a huge fan of the "whatabout" arguments, in principle.
But, on the other hand, "whataboutism" is perfectly fair in politics, since the argument being made is that some person or act is evil. If the accuser clearly doesn't believe that because they support the same person or act if they are on their own side, they are lying for political purposes.
In other words, in politics, the "Tu quoque" observation is perfectly valid. Any Democrat who claims that drone strikes are wrong in principle but defends them when Obama used them is not just a hypocrite—which again is a perfectly valid point in politics—but a liar. He is pretending to believe something he doesn't in order to deceive people about both himself and his political opponent.
Amy, we didn’t see such condemnations from you when the president called Americans who supported the other candidate “garbage."
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 5, 2025
Must’ve been an oversight on your part, since this is clearly an issue that you believe must be addressed in the strongest moral terms. https://t.co/UN9OMm0jaA pic.twitter.com/0Uc2EOl7iF
All politicians (and all of us, to be honest) can be hypocrites. Hypocrisy is the nod that vice makes to virtue, in most cases at least. Parents telling children not to do drugs while enjoying them themselves is a common example.
But political hypocrisy is next-level stuff. Democrats have spent decades accusing Republicans of the most vile things. Being white supremacists, Nazis, wanting to put people in camps.
But as soon as a Republican turns the tables, they scream and moan. Unprecedented! Evil! Even "stochastic terrorism!" "I am getting death threats!
🚨 LMFAO! Tim Walz is whining because people are driving by his house and screaming “RETARD” out the window at him since Trump called him “seriously retarded.”
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 4, 2025
Yes, this is REAL.
Absolutely INCREDIBLE stuff. Great work, patriots 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ms3saYbr4D
As left-wingers are taking potshots at Republicans after a years-long campaign to dehumanize us and turn us into figures of hate, criticizing or insulting Democrats is beyond the pale.
I can't tell you how many times I see a liberal complaining that even the most mild criticism is "violent," while they exert enormous efforts to demonize Republicans as "threats to democracy," Nazis, fascists, or white supremacists. It is becoming so common that my eyes hurt from rolling.
Honestly if I took a couple hundred million dollars from my neighbor and gave it to some sketchy bums who Venmoed a bunch of it to terrorists, and then he drove past my house and called me a retard, I would consider it getting off easy https://t.co/EhnLsMEgjK
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 5, 2025
Democrats set the rules here, and until Trump started firing back, the Republicans just sat back and took it. Joe Biden accused Mitt Romney—MITT ROMNEY!—of wanting to put black people "in chains" while he was the sitting Vice President.
Yet when Donald Trump says that Tim Walz is not right in the head, it is a death threat.
Please.
Amy Klobuchar was a full-throated supporter of President Biden, who spent half his (limited) time accusing Republicans of the most vile things, including being "garbage," and now she is complaining that Trump used the word to describe a group that has spent two decades degrading our country and ripping off the taxpayers.
Again, please. Shut up.
The thing is, Many Democrats don't even hear themselves doing it. They hate us and have dehumanized us. They literally believe that the Tren de Aragua gang members are better for America than you and me.
So, pointing out that they have been verbally assaulting us for years, celebrating the murder of conservatives, praising rioters who are fighting our "systemic racism," and attacking evil "white culture" is more than fair.
So yes, Tu quoque is not only fair but necessary. If them's the rules you play by, we get to play by them too.
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