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Trump could literally Rape and Kill a Child on 5th Avenue and NOT lose a SINGLE Voter!
-Pro Life Republicans trying to Protect The Children!
Yeah, we know. We've known this for a long time.
If twenty women (and girls) call a guy a rapist, he's a rapist
I didn't know about the threats of murder. These billionaires are beyond fucked up!
How else do you think they kept them quiet? Of course they were threatened. Haven’t you seen the faces of these girls in the pictures that have been released over the years? They look petrified and hollow.
So... War with Iran Saturday?
And alien files too!
Shocked I say! 🤦🏻
Remember when Republicans were outraged because a president was recieving blowjobs from a consenting adult in the oval office?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
Obviously, child rape is way worse. And any accused pedophile should at a minimum see a trial.
However, Bill Clinton really did take advantage of Monica Lewinsky. He was her boss, she wasn't just a consenting random adult. There are elements of coercion inherent in a power dynamic like that.
More than one thing can be bad at a time.
However, Bill Clinton really did take advantage of Monica Lewinsky. He was her boss, she wasn't just a consenting random adult. There are elements of coercion inherent in a power dynamic like that.
How about you take all of 10s to find out what Monica Lewinsky actually said about Clinton.
Monica Lewinsky has consistently said that her relationship with Bill Clinton was consensual.
Although she has described it as inappropriate and shaped by a significant power imbalance, she has, however not claimed that he coerced.
Indeed in later interviews and writing, she has emphasized the issue of power dynamics between a president and a young intern, while still maintaining that the encounters themselves were consensual.
Everything Monica Lewinsky Revealed About the Bill Clinton Scandal in Her Podcast 589 Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton. Monica Lewinsky is ready to reclaim the narrative surrounding her life in the public eye.
The activist just launched her “Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky” podcast and dived into her infamous scandal with former President Bill Clinton.
“I fell in love with D.C. and the White House and the job and the environment and then, very unfortunately, I fell in love with my boss who was married and also the most powerful man in the world,” she said on the February 17 episode. “What followed was an inappropriate relationship that lasted for two years
In fact her life was fucked after the huge bullshit media fire storm the republicans stoked. She got basically black balled, no one would employ her (she said she had over to interviews, where no one would see her past her name)
https://www.today.com/news/monica-lewinsky-bill-clinton-affair-resignation-rcna193798
"There was definitely a period of time that I contemplated it, except given the world we lived in, I couldn't even see a reality of that," she said. "How is that really going to work? I'm going to walk down the street in L.A. where I was raised and run into someone and they'll say 'Monica' and I'll, you know, 'Oh my name is Rebecca now,' I didn't even know how that would work"
At no time had she ever felt like Clinton raped her.
So stop spreading shit that he didn't do. Shit I don't even like the Clinton's. I think Bill caused a huge amount of problems, especially, along Albright, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraq children and people in the 90s due to unnecessarily evil sanctions regime.
And HRC has so much to answer for herself and yet to date, despite huge amounts of effort by their enemies no one has found any evidence that Bill raped or coerced anyone.
Even the Epstein survivors have categorically stated that Bill Clinton did not touch them
The thing I find odd about the argument that a power imbalance makes consent impossible is that would make it effectively impossible for any POTUS to have consensual relations except for maybe with other world leaders.
The important point here is that the relationship occurred within the workplace. No one would care if it were just your run of the mill affair. He isn't the first president, nor is he the last, to have one of those.
And any accused pedophile should at a minimum see a trial.
And what? Have him be convicted of 200 more felonies, to add to the 34 he already has so he can walk away just like he did before?
Seriously. Imagine yourself in her shoes. You get this dream internship, literally working in the oval office. What a life-changing opportunity! Then the literal president of the United States, the man in complete control of the CIA, FBI, and the most powerful military on Earth, a man who could probably have you disappeared if he wanted to. That man drops his pants and asks you to suck his dick.
Nightmare fuel.
You are sexistly presuming she wasnt the one pursuing him aggressively. She herself said it was consensual I dont know how much more proof you need.
Yeah, we know all that. We're just wondering what YOU (and your colleagues) are going to do about it.
Going to get the special blue pen for the stern letter.
Is anyone else getting sick and tired of reading about his disgusting sub-human vile behavior while at the same time, watching no one do anything about?
It sickens me to know about him having done all of these things- especially when you consider that everyone that could do something about it are too scared of him to do more than SLAM him on twitter.
And even that is lukewarm at best.
He needs to me Braveheart’ed in the least and fired into the sun at the most. Yet his disgusting mouth is free to run about whatever addled geriatric bullshit that got up his ass to date.
It’s fucking exhausting.
Amen. I must've read hundreds if not thousands of headlines that all declare some new terrible thing that this terrible president and his terrible friends have gotten away with. That isn't news to me at this point. Until consequences are produced, it's all the same headline repeated ad nauseum. I shouldn't feel apathy at the thought that he raped and threatened to kill children, but I do, because it's the same news I'm always hearing about the shitlord. I'm jaded. I'm tired.
That bullet should've been the end of him.
I’m convinced that kid was paid to sit on a building with a rifle, there was no bullet that hit that piece of shit and that kid paid with his life to give Trump a day’s worth of sympathy from a bunch of ignorant hillbillies.
What about the dude in the crowd that got killed?
I appreciate the adherence to due process and all that, but can we fucking stop with the “allegations” bullshit? Trump raped children. Full fucking stop. Stop softening the hard truth here. He is a pedophile who raped children, and also played a massively prominent role in one of the largest sex trade operations we have ever seen. And that’s not fucking alleged. He did it.
It has nothing to do with due process. News media will never do that until there is a conviction because it opens them up to lawsuits. Even with the nearly impossible bar for defamation that public figures have.
Lawsuits are expensive, even if you're right. Especially when they come from a serial bullshit artist that drags them out for eternity like Trump.
Then start a lawsuit. Have them prove he DIDNT do it. It's pretty fucking apparent. Slander is not absolute, make him take you to court over it you fucking pussies
Let them fucking sue.
Cowards
It's under now
It REALLY annoys me when they talk about the DOW or whatever other stock market indicator is at "record highs". Like, that has actually been the default state for as long as the DOW has existed. Look at a graph of its price back to the 80s, and see it has exponentially grown basically the entire time.
Over the last 20 years, on average, it has gone up 10 percent each year. You can see where anomalies take it higher or lower than the trend, like the accelerated growth and then drop of the dot com bubble, the sub prime loan bubble, and the covid dip and post covid tech bubble. They stand out as deviations on the graph that makes it not exactly follow the trend. But it has thus far always returned to normal where it TENDS to be going up about 10 percent a year.
It's not interesting that it is going up or that it reaches a new record price. It does that all the time. And it's really not brag worthy that the rate of growth may be higher now, either, because we are all too aware that that is largely due to the AI bubble that will pop hard. The fact that he is claiming credit for it is hilarious though. When that bubble pops, it won't be his fault though, obviously.
The real inflation rate is closer to the average increase in the the stock indexes, which is 12% last I checked. 12 minus something, I would hazard 12 minus the 2-3 of stated inflation is closer to real inflation. But as of 2008 the old unchanged formula averaged 5-8 percent inflation. Higher now obviously.
Okay media your cue to be the fourth estate... 'crickets'.
He's fucken lining up that up for ya. You're either against criminality or you aid and abet. Pretty simples, or do we need a Meercat to spell it out?
Paramount /CBS/David Elison is on the job
meercat
hakuna matata?
Its a well known British and Australian (at least) advertising mascot, the little catch at the end is always 'simples'
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLckHpQW-ERCzUgTxD2zU4J9DMSDo3bRbE
What a wonderful phrase.
swept under the carpet in 3... 2...
I dunno, it seems like magas red line is raping children. Wish there was a higher bar but here we are.
The bar, I believe, is pubic hair.
Only if done by a democrat or Trans person. Not a powerful republican. Unless that republican was male raped a male kid, that would be bad because then gay 😞.
Hopefully he said that without immunity from prosecution and Trump sues. Otherwise it really means nothing
Come on, his the first democrat to call trump out explicitly for raping children.
Imagine Schumer or jefferies coming out with this?
Look, anyone who thinks he's a paedo or not won't change their mind. This does nothing except move a line in the sand.
You'll note that Trump isn't threatening to sue him like he's did with Murdoch
Words matter. For the last 10 years Democrats have pussy footed around with calling Trump out and yet when they finally do you claim that it won't do anything.
Considering how shit Trumps rating is I'd argue that it's doing something.
How is he so bad at delivering this news? Don't they have anyone better at this?!
Yeah there's no sound bite here and that's all people pay attention to
That’s one of the many problems people in America focus on way too much. It shouldn’t matter how he’s delivering it. That’s too emotional, this is logical. Stick. To. The. Message. Stick. To. The. Facts.
100% the facts should be all that matter, but clearly (after seeing the success of the facts-optional Republican party) how it's delivered matters too. A bad delivery gives people an attack angle..
I don't think it has anything to do with the angle, it has everything to do with like republicans buying up radio like 50 years ago then buying up TV in the 90s, and all the tech bros and social media aligning with republicans in 2020.
If you can fully engulf people in your alternate reality echo chamber for long enough it just becomes true. And in order to create fact-free reality you need to deeply hate the people you're lying to. Republican leaning dems often support this structure by meeting the lies half way.
The way to beat this is to make these media companies expensive and useless. To use power to break them up into local outlets or expose them to financial risk for misleading people. And the way to get that power is to find real problems media is steering people away from and addressing those problems.
Angle, no. Delivery, yes. It needs to be explained 2-3 times in different ways so that people with different understandings can follow and learn to expand what’s is happening and the cause of it. Like a good teacher going in and out from multiple points of view
Haha, I kinda liked the way he said it.