“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
If hypocrisy didn’t exist, Democrats would have to invent it.
They spend a year defending fiery and murderous riots in every city across the country, then they spend another year saying that a two-hour riot at the Capitol was worse than Pearl Harbor.
They promise to “shut down the virus,” then preside over yet another deadly COVID outbreak.
And they claim Republicans are killing innocent people nationwide by opposing mask mandates and vaccine passports—then they break their own standards and fly to free states like Florida to go maskless.
The latest example is Congressman Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who was caught violating his own huge support for masking up—in the state that Democrats hate the most.
Swalwell wanted to go without a mask. So he went to one of the states where that’s still legal: Florida.
The leftist congressman from California and his newborn baby had a brief outdoor date with a female friend in Miami, where he didn’t wear a mask and didn’t maintain six feet of social distancing, as he has strongly recommended.
A keen-eyed passerby saw the 41-year-old shredding his own integrity in the luxurious Loews Miami Beach Hotel and snapped a picture, which appeared in the Daily Mail on Tuesday.
Swalwell had no mask, but he emerged with egg on his face.
Just days earlier, he hopped all over the House Judiciary GOP when it asked about the enormous number of breakthrough Omicron infections.
Swalwell went ballistic. “As we end 2021, mired in a deadly pandemic, you should know who has prolonged it. THESE GUYS. Republican liars. Your vacation canceled. Your kids back to virtual learning. And back to masks everywhere. For blame look no farther than #TheseGuys,” he tweeted.
As we end 2021, mired in a deadly pandemic, you should know who has prolonged it. THESE GUYS. Republican liars. Your vacation cancelled. Your kids back to virtual learning. And back to masks everywhere. For blame look no farther than #TheseGuys. pic.twitter.com/v3S43HKPVZ
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 31, 2021
Officials in the office of Eric Swalwell, who fell for a honey trap by romancing a Chinese spy named Fang Fang, tried to sweet-talk the media. “The Congressman was in the Sunshine State to take official meetings and campaign to help Democrats keep the House,” the office said. “He loves Florida and has dozens of family members there. It is lies from unvaccinated Republicans that are prolonging the pandemic.”
But Swalwell, who is not known for his charm, threw all that away when he went on a totally shameless Twitter rant. “They got me! Maskless, juggling a baby and a coffee while meeting with a Congolese queen. Pulitzer please!” he tweeted on Wednesday.
He’s just the latest hypocritical Democrat to make a COVID mask tourist trip to Florida.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was captured on film on New Year’s Eve in Florida, having a maskless date with her live-in boyfriend. When called on it, AOC said anyone calling her on her lack of integrity was sexually frustrated by her impossible good looks.
“Republicans are mad they can’t date me,” she tweeted.
If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet.
Ya creepy weirdos https://t.co/Z7bZCgXpWJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
She’s one of a long laundry list of Democratic politicians who have sometimes broken their own state’s laws for the sake of their own convenience.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom got caught dining at an elite French restaurant, crammed together with lobbyists, all without a mask. That violated orders he personally handed down and forced average Californians to follow.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair done despite lockdown orders making her new ‘do illegal. After she got caught, she blamed the salon owner for setting her up.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot decided to take her mind off her city’s exploding murder rate by getting her hair done, saying that since she’s a public figure, she deserves it.
And no one has any idea how many have fled their own blue states, like Swalwell and AOC, to live free in Florida, which they’ve deeply criticized.
“If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician that decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man,” Gov. DeSantis joked.
But he turned more serious on Thursday during an interview with Fox and Friends.
“The number of lockdown politicians that have locked down their people, lectured their people, cast aspersions on Florida, who then turn around and then seek refuge in Florida, it’s so much it’s become a cottage industry. I mean, you have governors, you have mayors, you have members of Congress,” Gov. DeSantis told Fox News.
“They say one thing, and then they live under different sets of rules,” Gov. DeSantis said. “It really shows you that this is a ruling class mentality where they think that they can impose these on other people, but that they should not have to follow all the dictates that they constantly spout.”
Maybe Democrats should trade their mask for a muzzle.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”