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Whataboutism

The universal deflection - and how to name it without losing the room.

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Whataboutism

But Obama!Whataboutismmedium“But Obama did the same thing! Why didn't you complain then?”Share

WhataboutismMediahard“What about Hunter Biden's laptop? The media buried it!”Share

Culture WarsWhataboutismmedium“Democrats are the real racists! They founded the KKK!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismeasy“Democrats are socialists! They want government to control everything!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“Biden's brain is mush! He's too old and senile to be president!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismeasy“FEMA only helps Democrats! They ignored Republican hurricane victims!”Share

Whataboutismeasy“What about [anything else]? Why aren't you talking about that?”Share

WhataboutismDemocracymedium“Both sides are equally bad! Politics is all corrupt!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismhard“Ukraine aid is a money laundering scheme for Democrats!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“Antifa organized the Capitol riot! It wasn't Trump supporters!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“BLM burned down cities! Why don't you condemn that?”Share

WhataboutismMediamedium“Trump donated his presidential salary! He's not in it for the money!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismhard“Trump started no new wars! He's the peace president!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Trump is a self-made billionaire! He built an empire!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Republicans are fiscal conservatives! Democrats spend too much!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismhard“Trump was tougher on Russia than anyone! Nobody was harder!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“Trump was draining the swamp! He fought the establishment!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismmedium“Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize! He ended wars!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismhard“The estate tax is double taxation! It's stealing family farms!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismhard“Social Security is going bankrupt! Democrats stole the trust fund!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismhard“Cut corporate taxes and jobs explode! Democrats hate business!”Share

HealthcareWhataboutismmedium“Medicare for All means year-long waits and death panels!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Billionaires earned every penny! Stop punishing success!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“Democrats use executive orders like dictators! Trump is just undoing Biden!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Social Security is going bankrupt! Democrats stole the trust fund!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismeasy“Biden caused all inflation! Trump fixed it instantly!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Trump's tax cuts paid for themselves! Revenue went up!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Reagan fixed the economy! Inflation was terrible until he cut taxes!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Welfare queens drive Cadillacs! Democrats want free stuff for lazy people!”Share

HealthcareWhataboutismhard“Fauci created COVID in a lab! He funded the Wuhan lab!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Democrats always raise your taxes! Republicans cut them!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Only Democrats run up the deficit! Republicans are fiscally responsible!”Share

HealthcareWhataboutismmedium“Canadian healthcare has year-long waits! Socialized medicine kills people!”Share

WhataboutismCourtsmedium“Biden had classified docs too! Same as Trump - both guilty!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismeasy“Democrats take dark money too! Both sides!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“Who cares about round numbers? 125 events is a distraction!”Share

MediaWhataboutismeasy“If it's on pages.dev it's not a real website!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“Infrastructure passes don't help democracy - just build more content!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismmedium“America never had an empire - we spread freedom!”Share

WhataboutismDemocracymedium“Both parties are the same - why bother voting?”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Democrats want welfare queens on your dime!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Billionaires earned every penny - stop the envy!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“Democrat-run cities are hellholes!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismeasy“Any social program is socialism and look at Venezuela!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“Democrat cities are crime hellholes!”Share

WhataboutismDemocracymedium“Both parties are the same!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“Democrats wanted to abolish the police!”Share

Jan 6Whataboutismeasy“Jan 6 was Antifa false flag!”Share

Jan 6Whataboutismmedium“Pelosi turned down the National Guard!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Inflation is entirely Biden's fault!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismeasy“Impeachments of Trump were illegal coups!”Share

WhataboutismDemocracymedium“Everyone has classified documents issues!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“Hunter Biden explains every Trump scandal!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“States' rights should decide everything!”Share

Culture WarsWhataboutismmedium“Every society had slavery - stop picking on America!”Share

ElectionsWhataboutismmedium“Both sides gerrymander - so it's fine!”Share

WhataboutismDemocracyeasy“But her emails! Why the double standard?”Share

WhataboutismDemocracyeasy“Both parties are the same - nothing matters!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismeasy“Career civil servants are the deep state!”Share

CrimeWhataboutismmedium“Crime dropped because Trump is tough!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismmedium“Trump always brings peace!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismeasy“Deficits are only a Democratic problem!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“Both sides are equally violent!”Share

WhataboutismDemocracyeasy“Every president signs lots of executive orders so stop counting!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“240 events and 550 rebuttals are just vanity metrics!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismeasy“Industrial policy is socialism unless our guy does it!”Share

MediaWhataboutismeasy“Federal Register links are partisan gotchas!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“There cannot possibly be more verifiable actions to log!”Share

MediaWhataboutismeasy“Severity scores are made-up activism!”Share

Whataboutismmedium“Both sides issue the same volume of executive actions!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismhard“The Church Committee was just a smear job!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismhard“Gramm-Leach-Bliley had nothing to do with 2008!”Share

EconomyWhataboutismmedium“Enron was a few bad apples!”Share

DemocracyWhataboutismmedium“Teapot Dome proves both sides are always identical!”Share

WhataboutismMediaeasy“There cannot be more verifiable room after Pass 30!”Share

MediaWhataboutismeasy“260 tracker events must be padding!”Share

MediaWhataboutismeasy“600 rebuttals is spam!”Share

Foreign PolicyWhataboutismmedium“Cuba sanctions are simple morality!”Share

WhataboutismMediamedium“Both sides publish the same Federal Register volume!”Share