I was JUST thinking about this. In any normal universe, a JUDGE affirming that a candidate in fact RAPED another person would spell the end to their political career and total ostracization from public life.
Right? At the very least, if I was Biden, I would be pumping out ads going "My opponent is a rapist who was incredibly close friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years, in fact here's footage of them partying together." Like this is stuff that shouldn't be allowed to slip into the background.
Strategic lawsuits against public participation work remarkably well, given that the US does not have a Federal anti-SLAPP law unfortunately 👍
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I mean, I think it's even more damning that a jury found he committed sexual abuse. That would have absolutely killed anybody's political career before 2015 when the rules changed.
Sounds like she's about to sue him a third time. I don't even think that pedophile even has any money left!
I wish I could get money every time an overgrown orange toddler with absolutely no willpower to stop breaking the law said my name.
There's something deeply busted about our media ecosystem on a level that almost nobody wants to confront because there don't seem to be any actual good answers to it. The actual acts of candidates, and the words they say, are functionally irrelevant. What on earth do you do with that?
Like it doesn't matter where on the political spectrum you are, everybody is in denial of this fact because if nothing the politicians do actually matter then there's nothing to DO. Its the closest I get to political nihilism, at least when it comes to elections
The passive voice there is so oopsy, really just gotta go with "Trump raped..." and not "was found to have been around the rape kinda sorta doing what amounted to mayhaps what is legally defined to all as rape"
Reds support a rapist. There's also been hush money cases (documents = public) where he's done the same to children at Mar de Lago. Paid the parents to keep them quiet, but nobody cares Abt that either. More news at 11
I disagree that no one mentions it, it's just not mentioned by MSM. Many people that refer to him as a rapist on a regular basis.
Sadly, the Trump/MAGA cult -- formerly known as the GOP -- sees women as objects that men can do with as they please so a rapist candidate is just another man to them.
The “not my type” defense while all but saying she looked like his ex-wife sealed it. Combined with every other power grab move he’s made with women, he should be ostracized from society. People who’ve done far less are simple never heard from again. His base just says it’s cancel culture…
For all of the worthy concerns about the state of news media and journalism, the thing that gets overlooked all the time is how much media execs hold a grudge after #metoo.
They would literally rather have fascism and ChatGPT than ever be held accountable again, especially for their sexism.
Though, as someone pointed out on here, I think George Stephanopoulos discussed this case and got sued by Trump for defamation and then no media orgs talked about it after
Considering that we as a society now have the attention span of a goldfish it should be discussed at the door of actual electoral colleges for it to have any effect, I'm afraid.
Anytime before that it will be lost in the usual pandemonium of news.
It's one of the few remaining things that makes me physically feel sick, to be honest. The fact that his followers either don't care or actively celebrate it is one of the others.
I hope to all that is good that the Biden campaign is just holding on to it until the debate.
The sheer glory of the first question to Biden and him just answering “Well, unlike former President Trump, who raped a woman, I believe that marginal tax rate above…”Lead off every single answer that way.
Genuinely yes! It's like Mr. Burns' diseases - he has SO many scandals that not one of them ever gets the focus he deserves, no matter how ghastly. He'd be in significantly worse shape if he'd been involved in even like 30% less scandals.
Their opponent has been legally declared a rapist. Will the Biden campaign call him a rapist a single time? Seems bad that you would have to even question it
