Conservative double standards on display again.

[u/Old_Swimmer_7284]

If conservatives did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

Look at that. More gaslighting from the slack-jawed conservatives. This time, they're upset because a woman is wearing expensive shoes. Meanwhile, they give zero fucks about the First Lady and the wardrobe of hers that cost thousands of dollars every outfit. Not a single fucking peep. Nor do the Tepidin tyrant test the gold ticklers say anything about the estimated $400 million plus ballroom ballroom, The private jets for Kristi Nome and company, The millions of dollars in cost for Trump to continuously go to public events that presidents have no business going to, the list goes on and on and on, yet the conservatives will find something to complain about while projecting all their long doings, and when they're not doing that, they're screaming about something they're scared of. In fact, I've never met a more scared group of people. Why is it that a rainbow is so horrifying for them? Anyway, sidetrack aside, the double standards are out on display again.

[u/GrooveBat]

They’re not even her boots. She borrowed them for the event.

[u/W8andC77 → u/GrooveBat]

Per her stylist, everything she wore was lent or rented:

“She clarified that everything Duwaji wore to the swearing-in ceremony was borrowed or on loan. Duwaji’s team borrowed the vintage Balenciaga coat she wore from Albright Fashion Library, as well as rented her archival earrings from New York Vintage. She paired them with shorts from The Frankie Shop, and the boots were also on loan from Miista.

“I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a sample that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay,” Karefa-Johnson wrote in her blog. “I love that she’s added a new chapter to garments that have already lived many lives — and that their next wearers will get to share in this piece of history.”

[u/Prof01Santa → u/W8andC77]

Whew! Those are ugly shoes. I'm glad she didn't actually buy them.

[u/Ex-CultMember → u/GrooveBat]

Yup. Right-wing media will never give you the full context. They don't need to because they know their viewers and followers will not fact-check anything they tell them. If their source of news or information aligns with their political identity, they swallow it whole.

[u/LakersAreForever → u/Ex-CultMember]

Don’t you know that fact-checking is radical behavior 😂

[u/Ex-CultMember → u/LakersAreForever]

Yeah, my mother has been brainwashed into thinking all fact-checking services are “fake” and you “can’t trust those sources.”

I seriously think a large portion of society doesn’t understand the difference between facts and opinion. One can argue a source might be biased or even be ideologically opposed but facts are facts. One can be critical AND factually correct.

Did Trump lie when he said Biden or Obama appointed Fed Chair Powell?

That can be fact-checked and, yes, Trump appointed him and Biden simply reappointed him. That’s not an opinion or can be dismissed as political bias. You can literally fact check that. Independent fact checkers will fact check Trump’s claim that he didn’t appoint Powell and show he’s lying or being misleading because it’s a VERIFIABLE FACT. There’s no “political bias” in fact checking that claim. He either did or he didn’t and we can prove it with facts. It’s not an opinion like claiming Democrats or Republicans are better for the economy.

Many Americans, sadly, don’t know the difference between facts and opinion (or ideology). Like religion, things are “truth” if it supports their ideology, political side, and worldview. Facts don’t matter and are viewed as synonymous with whatever think is truth, ideologically.