People are keeping receipts these days. Receipt Keepers are growing in population because everyone practically has a smartphone in their pockets that keeps these receipts. Everyone has cameras, data, and a world of resources at their fingertips that they can access at a moment's notice. EVERYONE now has the ability to be a Fact Checker.
There are a handful of Oath Keepers in jail thanks to the help of the Keepers of Accountability (and of course Prosecutors).
- If you are on record of assaulting Capitol Police during January 6th after "backing the blue" during previous BLM protests, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you are on record of wanting to lock up Hillary for deleted e-mails you couldn't find but not Trump for classified documents that were actually found, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you are on record of wanting to impeach the 42nd President for his actions with an intern but not wanting to hold the 45th accountable for his actions with a porn star, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you are on record of spending more time looking for the birth certificate of the 44th President but turning the other cheek when the 45th President refused to provide his tax returns, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you are on record of defending Kyle Rittenhouse for killing BLM "rioters" but feel that Ashli Babbitt's "killer" should be prosecuted, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you are on record of kissing John McCain's ass when he was running against the 44th President in 2008 but shunned him when he opposed the 45th President before his passing ten years later, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you spend more time "protecting" children from being groomed by Drag Queens (viewing Renaissance sculptures) than you do gun-wielding Psychos, the Receipt Keepers will take note.
- If you send personal texts about how much you despise someone but your company's stock price is determined by how you kiss that someone's ass, the Receipt Keepers will take note (eat your heart out Mr. "Beta-Male" Carlson).
- {Warning: I am going to go Old School on this next one} If you had a "Sore Loserman" bumper sticker on your car after the Gore-Lieberman vs. Bush-Cheney 2000 election but are still convinced that the Biden vs. Trump 2020 election was "stolen"...meh...never mind...you know where I am going with this.
This isn't what I consider "whataboutism". This is about accountability and credibility.
If I complain about 45 but then you bring up a complaint about 44 or 46, how does that address my complaint about 45? If I also agree with your complaints about 44 and 46, I am the one holding everyone accountable. Whataboutism is just a lazy way of only holding your foes accountable, and if you have a history of only holding your foes accountable and not your allies, you have no credibility.
Yes, I WILL complain about the number of minorities needlessly killed by law enforcement. If you say "what about the black-on-black crime in Chicago?" how does that address the completely unrelated issue that I originally broached? If Black people stop killing each other in Chi-Town, law enforcement in all jurisdictions would put out an All Points Bulletin to reduce the number of Black people killed during their investigations and arrests?
Side story: Last year I was at a 4th of July BBQ. During a conversation with the Grill Master I brought up that I had recently received the Covid vaccine. "How can you put something in your body when you don't know what is in it?" he asked after taking a bite of a hotdog purchased from the local Dollar General. I did not immediately say “what about that hotdog? But if you question what's been put in a vaccine but not question what's been put in a hotdog bun…meh…never mind....you know where I am going with this.
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