I think it was first created during the Clinton administration.
May well have been. It’s so old, I don’t remember the first time I heard it.
Remember the string of Republican adulterers who were on the Clinton impeachment train? I’m pretty sure that was when the phrase was first spread.
I’ve never added anything to UrbanDictionary, but this might be sufficient motivation. Maybe the OED could pick it up.
It’s
OK
When
A
Republican
Does
It
I pronounce it “awkwardy”.
Heh. Yes, for that reason I like the “W” version. (Also for comments on the W Administration.) But apparently it’s less popular than the “I” version.
I have to assume there’s a corresponding IOWADDI out there.
Seriously? Democrats getting an automatic pass?
Not in this mediasphere, so far as I’ve ever seen.
On truth social, certainly. I’ve heard the basic argument, that we ignore bad stuff on our side. Which I don’t think is usually true, but sometimes true.
It would have to be something like:
NMWDDINO
No Matter What Democrats Do, It’s Never Okay
Well, yes, Truth Social users (all 59 of them) might well use some form of that accusation against Democrats. But they’d have to make stuff up, I suspect.
I mean, Democrats nearly always agree that when Dems do bad stuff they should pay the price. I didn’t hear anyone defending Robert Menendez, for example (the NJ Senator convicted of bribery etc.).
The Maine candidate with the Nazi tattoo IS still getting a defense, but of course there’s no question of it being a defense against indictment—there’s no crime involved. People just want to win that Senate seat, and they think they’ve got to have a straight white guy, no matter how iffy his past.
Sound about right (wing).
Al Franken was shitcanned for pretending to grope a sleeping woman.
It was more than that. Not enormously a lot more, but more. Franken was touchy-feely and crossed modern boundaries. Accusations of a few unwanted kisses or attempts at pressing kisses on others, boobs and butts lightly touched, a waist squeezed. He doesn’t seem to have been a slavering sleazebag. But he does seem to have been too handsy and familiar in a way that in these days would get you called down to HR and at least disciplined. Probably fired.
Franken now regrets resigning and said some of the accusations were false and some he remembers as happening differently. Which, sure, okay - it was never fully investigated. But there were more than just a couple of accusations and I’m not necessarily inclined to take Franken’s word. In the end I don’t think it was a bad thing he was pressured into falling on his sword. In the atmosphere of the day it probably set the right political message for the party, if not him personally.
Last week, Jason Reding Quiñones, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, issued more than two dozen subpoenas, including to officials who took part in the inquiry into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
The fact that TFG is a traitor and convicted criminal, does not make other people guilty of anything.
???
Of course these people aren’t guilty of anything. They were doing their job with their inquiries into Trump’s dark political ties, and the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney is dutifully carrying out Trump’s revenge on those who participated in the “conspiracy” against him. Unless I misunderstand your point.
(But I’m sure Congress or the Supreme Court or somebody will tell Trump to knock it off any time now. Aaaaany time now…)
Shoot the messenger…
I’ve noticed this more here over the last couple of days.
Trump will ignore the 22nd Amendment and everyone will go along.
Trump will not hold elections in 2028 and they will just not happen.
In regards to the 25th Amendment, Trump will refuse to step down and no one can do a thing about it.
Those sort of arguments immediately stop any sort of reasoned discussion of the topics.
I agree, reality is grim right now.