Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks

by Charlamagne Tha God

Republicans will tolerate all sorts of shenanigans in their politicians. Corruption. Lies. Sharing secrets with foreign enemies. Hell, even staging a coup and trying to overthrow the government! The thing they don’t seem to tolerate is open homosexuality (the down low is fine though, of course). As I said one time on The Daily Show, the only corrupt politician I’ve ever seen the Republicans disown is George Santos. “Yes, he was a scam artist who stole and lied, but Republicans are ride and die with all kinds of liars and crooks,” I told the crowd. “I’m just saying look at their track record. If you’re LGBT they’ll make you GTFO.” Republicans are very comfortable with corruption. From 1969 through 2020, Republican presidential administrations have had 121 criminal indictments and 89 convictions, while the Democrats have had 3 indictments and 1 conviction in the same period. And we’re not even sure Trump has closed up his tab yet! But you’ll never hear the Republicans cop to any of that. They don’t care if their politicians are pure. They care if they hold the party line.