This pissed me so-off this week — I was going to post about it yesterday, but ran out of both time and energy — the shifty shittiness of Republicans after four years of the nasty, crass-foul mouth of the T-Rump and a few particular asshole GOPers who continously talk shit about minorities, women, children, the handicapped, etc., are now clutching  pearls (h/t on the tweet Daily Kos):

Fuck that – Republicans and the right wing media are operating in bad faith – they always do. @jomalleydillon has earned the right to speak her mind – just like every dude campaign manager that’s ever lived. And @JoeBiden can speak his.

— Brad Woodhouse (@woodhouseb) December 16, 2020

One whiny shit-fucker was Little Marco:

Biden talks about unity and healing, but you want to know what they really think?

Read how the person he wants as the next WH deputy chief of staff called Republicans in Congress a bunch of f***ers

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 17, 2020

What a condescending fucker! This entire episode has blown into a real non-story in the face of not only the pandemic, T-Rump’s pure-gross lies about the election, Russian hacking, and a huge-freaking economic crater, and especially after the shitoad of shit tossed-out every second by the Grifter-in-chief. The whole sordid theme sucks.

In Glamour magazine this month, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Joe Biden’s campaign manager, now to be his White House deputy chief of staff, had an interview which consisted mostly of talking about the election — she was tapped in March by Biden — and most of the talk was about like this:

Look, I think there’s never an easy path to that, right?
I’ve been doing presidential campaigns for the last 20 years.
Before I worked for the president-elect and before he was in the race, I ended up going on the campaign trail for Beto O’Rourke. I had a great life!
I had a consulting firm, and I loved the work I did.
I had three little kids.
People thought I was crazy that I was even thinking about taking that job.

But I just had this sense—for both my husband and me, because you obviously can’t do any of this shit if you don’t have a partner that believes in it as much as you do and is willing to help.
I just felt like, How do you answer to your kids when you look back on your life?
How do you go on with your life without doing something to help?
So I left all that stability. We moved to Texas. I moved three kids to El Paso, and my husband agreed to do it, and we made our lives work.

When it came to Vice President Biden, we had just around that time found out that my dad had cancer.
We didn’t know how serious it was.
And I asked myself, “Am I even up for this?” This is scary shit, and everything is at stake.
In the end, I just really felt called. I had to do something. And I believed in the vice president. It was kind of as simple as that.
…
That college coach is the person who introduced me to the idea of “We can do hard things.”
I didn’t even know you had said it before.
I was just starting on the campaign. And people were finding out about it, and my college softball coach reached out.
We were chatting and she said that one of the moms of her players was talking about how hard everything was with the pandemic, and she was trying to figure out, like, what’s a simple thing the team can rally around to get through the day and to just hang in together?
And my coach said the mom had said, “We can do hard things.”

And on and on, an incredible person who uses the word ‘shit’ like a shitload of other people, really no big deal. An awesome interview — go read the whole thing, make your day.
And the the part which pissed off Little Marco — in context it made absolute sense:

The president-elect was able to connect with people over this sense of unity.
In the primary, people would mock him, like, “You think you can work with Republicans?” I’m not saying they’re not a bunch of fuckers.
Mitch McConnell is terrible.
But this sense that you couldn’t wish for that, you couldn’t wish for this bipartisan ideal?
He rejected that. From start to finish, he set out with this idea that unity was possible, that together we are stronger, that we, as a country, need healing, and our politics needs that too.

See, a near-perfect perception.

Karen Tumulty in an op/ed at The Washington Post yesterday morning sparked the right end to this fucking shit:

What I’m wondering is whether it would have drawn any attention at all if those same words had been said by a male political operative.
(It might also be worth noting that this comment was the third time that O’Malley Dillon used the F-word in various contexts during that interview.
And if you care to count, she also used “s–t” four times.)

This is a gender-laced nontroversy similar to the one over whether the incoming first lady, Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education, is justified in using the title “doctor.”
No one seems to have raised such an objection when Henry Kissinger did it.

Or whether Neera Tanden’s history of combative tweets suggests she is too partisan to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, a job formerly held by Mick Mulvaney, a founder of the House’s hard-right Freedom Caucus.

I can think of a few salty words that might apply here, but the most apt description is “hypocrisy.”

There you go, you fuckers…

(Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘The Weeping Woman [La Femme qui pleure],’ found here).