"I will literally say whatever you want if it gets me confirmed"
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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Trump has also flip flopped several times.
It is called lying his ass off to get the position. Just like the Republican scotus nominations.
Maybe that worm in his brain isn’t actually dead 🧐
It’s pregnant.
Hopefully the worm decides to abort him
And then he'll be voted in anyways. Watch.
As is tradition.
Sounds like the typical politician/lawyer threading the needle. Basically to say abortion should be legal, but it sucks when it has to happen, and I want someone else to make the choices (and take the heat) on restricting them.
In my country, even as recently as a decade ago, flip-flopping on an issue was a death knell to the candidacy. Candidates needed to remain firm to their stated allegiances, or face an election loss. It was as simple as that.
We have a new crop of conservatives, though, who flip and flop without consequence. We haven't been as good at holding them to their own word and showing the flatlanders what 'trustworthy' means. We can do better.
Yeah, the nuisance here is we've gotten so accustomed to these weasel phrasings so people get away with 'well I never expressly said X but...' so people write it off as just being mushy on a topic. Particularly when it comes to something with such a polarized public opinion.