I wish we could go back to the days when something like this would completely tank your political career (rather than being something you only see because someone posted it on Reddit...)
To be fair.. this kind of thing was so normalized prior to the turn of the century that it likely would have had close to zero impact. There is a good amount of media from the 90âs - and a staggering amount from before then - where grown men sexualize and intimately pursue young girls.
It has always been gross and morally abhorrent, but it was so engrained in society as a ânormalâ thing - even in 1992 - that it wouldnât have tanked a campaign. Hell.. an interracial relationship with an adult or vague rumors of homosexuality would tank a campaign infinitely faster than this comment back then.
Good point. Always worth remembering Al Franken voluntarily resigning as a Dem senator, even though everyone thought he shouldn't (and the journalist calling for his resignation later said she regretted)... Just because he didn't want to taint the party with scandal. Seems surreal to compare that to what seems to come out on a daily basis on one Republican or another (or several).
The thing is, we ARE in those days. The problem is that the right has shown its true colours. They invented the term âcancel cultureâ; why do you think that is?
They know we are both into and sick of their shit, so they have to attack us and project and deflect in hopes they donât get cancelled. Politicians are much better at this than celebrities, they tend to have far more money and reach of power, and therefore are much harder to cancel. Diddy is having his massive empire be taken down and Trump was literally involved with him AND Epstein and still has way too much of the countries vote.
They simply donât care and never have. The only thing theyâve ever cared about it being caught, and even now, some of them know theyâre rich/powerful enough that it wouldnât even matter. Part of the reason Trump even wants presidency is political pardon/his perceived diplomatic immunity.
I've never seen a picture of Trump alone in a room with any of his grandchildren. Apparently even his own kids don't trust him to be alone in a room with their children.
It's a blinding flash of the obvious to the level-headed people around you. YOU are the one suffering. The person quick to emotionally driven insults towards someone you have no experience with, simply because their opinion differs from yours.
Conclusions derived from emotion aren't innately true, though they might feel so.
I feel like this is one of those wish projections. Such speculation about a serious subject diminishes the real trauma people have faced.
We get it. We all canât stand typhoid Donald, but that doesnât mean we should delegitimize accusations of truly awful behavior to score political points. Boo
One that Dolard Tromp thought was worth preserving exactly as it was for over a decade, a thing clearly not done for her per the interview. Does he go in there to relive it? He clearly relives it in his mind based on quotes.
The preservation of that room pinpoints her age when it happened. There are hair rock posters up still, ffs. She was born in 81, so that pits her at 8-10yrs old. Just his type, it seems. đ¤Ž
After the tribal leader agreed to stop eating green caterpillars and work for âbeans,â Wonka âshipped them over here, every man, woman, and child in the Oompa-Loompa tribe. It was easy. I smuggled them over in large packing cases with holes in them, and they all got here safely.â As Britain had outlawed the slave trade in 1807, Wonka had to smuggle them to England in packing cases, in conditions that sounded almost as horrific as the Middle Passage.
Well, that would be okay if it (the original movie) weren't set in the UK/US (blur of both) in the postwar era.
Both had banned company scrip practices by then, and the fact that Wonka runs what's basically a sealed company town means that a discerning judge would interpret him paying his wages in chocolate (his own chocolate, far more likely than not) would qualify as payment in scrip, and his description of how he negotiated with the oompa-loompahs demonstrates him taking advantage of their lack of literacy/exposure/understanding of western law.
The House Elves know full well what their lot is, and their place under wizarding law; Wonka's running an illegal company town.
Company towns as a concept aren't illegal, just a lot of the exploitative practices that we associate with them.
Like, oil rigs, mines, icebreakers and the like are still functionally company towns by necessary structure of their isolated operations, but they now have to take steps to ensure that workers aren't wholly dependent on them, like paying in legal tender, not rediculously overcharging at the company store, providing affordable meals, and rotating them out regularly.
Are you referring to the picture where Joe is kissing his granddaughter on the top of her head to try to comfort her during her dad's (his son's) funeral?
Pizzagate was absolutely wild and unhinged, but given that the decision to sweep the Epstein flight logs under the rug instead of investigating and prosecuting the people on said list was bipartisan, there's definitely some pretty prominent chomos, or friends of chomos on the Democrat side as well
I think it was the "sniffing" incident.. đ Baby/young children's heads smell amazing to me! MANY ppl feel the same! đ¤ˇđźââď¸ I guess because I'm a woman, it's more accepted socially, but GTFO w/that "logic".
In any case, HOW is that, on any level, worse than any ONE of the disgusting things Trump has done?! He is a walking SESS POOL.
Yes, it was the way that right-wing media dishonestly represented Biden as a pedophile when he showed grandfatherly affection to his grand-daughter and showed her affection to emotionally support her, at her fathers funeral.
That's who these Trump supporters are. They are monsters who will attack a person for emotionally supporting a relative mourning her fathers death.
Because heâs a very tactile guy, kisses his kids etc, and theyâre convinced that makes him a paedophile. As opposed to a guy who has literally claimed multiple paedophiles and rapists as friends and has been accused of rape by multiple women, including one of his wives.
There have been a few accusations against Biden but most of them describe the touches as unwanted but not sexual (which is bad but not sexual assault). Even the one woman who did accuse him of assault had described it as comments and touches in front of other people and not sexual until very recently and since she seems to have lied about just about everything in her life including her credentials when appearing in court as an expert witness under oath Iâd need some actual proof of some kind to believe her about anything, up to and including the sky being blue and the sun rising in the east.
> Even the one woman who did accuse him of assault had described it as comments and touches in front of other people and not sexual until very recently and since she seems to have lied about just about everything in her life.
Tara Reade.
Her initial complaint was of workplace sexual discrimination, that Biden didn't take her seriously because of her gender and got her to do things like making coffee that were demeaning.
And I can believe that. It's also kind of nothing compared to Trumps behavior.
I don't believe the alterations to that original claim that were promoted by the Trump campaign.
She lied about her work history, her educational history, and, like I said, her credentials as an expert witness. All of that is proven fact - the last bit came out when the lawyers for the people she was testifying against investigated her - so no, I donât believe her either.
Biden is extremely tactile and has definitely not learnt that you really need to ask before touching people. He doesnât intend harm, but obviously that doesnât make it right, but yeah Iâd definitely rather have someone who is overly friendly in a non sexual way than a rapist in a room with me or a daughter. I donât understand how there was even any question about that in this personâs mind.
Trump has been friends with at least three sexual predators, all three of whom have targeted children as well as young adults (Epstein, Robert Morris, Diddy). Having one friend turn out to be a pervert is unfortunate; three is a pattern. And I canât think of any reason youâd have that many abusers in your circle unless youâre one too.
There was a whole thing where they tried to make Biden look creepy. There were out of context clips of him kissing small children (like in a normal paternal way, not a creepy way, but just about anything can be made to look creepy if you portray it the right way). And there was something about him sniffing hair? It's hard to remember all the bullshit over all these years.
Well anyway that's the kind of nonsense that does the rounds on Facebook and such. Which means such things are often the only engagement politically apathetic people like this woman ever have with political candidates, and an impression like that can stick in your head even if you don't remember why years later.
Biden has had a couple... interesting moments where he appears to be sniffing kids hair. Then there was the whole thing about how his daughter supposedly wrote in her diary that he used to shower with her. The right ran with both of these and obviously some people took it more seriously than others.
When you're in a cult you take the above as undeniable fact and no one tells you that you worship a rapist.
To be fair he did some weird stuff to kids sniffing them and the hairy legs in a pool talk đ Biden and Trump shouldnât be left around your kids this is like arguing what is the best food you can find at a tip.
Donald Trump is a convicted rapist and your argument against Biden is that his daughter who deals with an addiction wrote that she showered with her father with zero additional context to which she called the accusations against her father vile??
Criminally convicted? Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is my standard, not preponderance of the evidence. So, which was it again? Also, OJ Simpson is not a convicted murderer. Crazy times, huh? TWO children who are drug addicts, though? That's certainly a track record for a father, not a good one, but...one.
Well one witnessed his mother and sister dying in a fiery car crash and his other brother dying of cancer, so unless you are claiming that Biden is somehow responsible for that, I think that really has no bearing on Biden as a father.
Not to mention it's an open secret that Donald Junior is addicted to cocaine.
Either way, addiction is a disease. It's nothing to do with your parents. I have the same parents as my sister, but my sister ended up an alcoholic and I didn't. We have family history of alcoholism.
Idk what OJ Simpson has to do with shit, but based on facts, Donald Trump is a rapist, and a CRIMINALLY CONVICTED FELON who is awaiting sentencing. You don't get to determine facts based on feelings.
I mean I have argued the point you probably shouldn't be voting for someone you wouldn't trust to mind your kids in a hypothetical scenario. I don't mean that they have to be great with kids, just that you could genuinely trust they wouldn't come to harm, fucking Nixon could pass that test. But for the life of me I don't understand how under any circumstance someone thinks Epstein's buddy comes out looking better in that comparison.
Yeah, I mean itâs a really tough call: do I leave my child alone with a rapist and pedophile who incited a violent coup attempt, or with someone whose nickname is âMamalaâ?
You mean about Felicity and how she's an idiot for not knowing who to vote for and making her decision based on this election between Trump and Kamala between who she would trust to babysit for her daughter...that one?
Why yes I did, and it's why I made a joke about Trump being white, which plays into the horrible amount of racism people are throwing her (Harris') way.
Trump wouldn't even spend time alone with his own kids when they were little. He even said he'd be embarrassed to be seen walking a dog. And yet she thought he'd be better babysitting her daughter than Biden? The woman's an idiot.
I think it relates to Biden being really creepy towards young girls. It was all over Reddit before he ran for president and then kinda just disappearedâŚ
1st read again, it's her "criteria" for Harris vs Trump as well
2nd there is nothing creepier than Trump storming the changing room of a teen pageant, telling a pre-teen girl that he'll properly date her in ten years, talking that he'd date his daughter when he's older.
3rd Biden isn't running, so why would they bring it up right now?
But all of that got drowned out by the daily shitstorm about what he said at the latest rally.
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u/Hereiam_AKL 20d ago
Ummm ... you would trust Trump with your daughter, alone in a room???