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    4 hours ago

    Remember when Republicans were outraged because a president was recieving blowjobs from a consenting adult in the oval office?

    Pepperidge farm remembers.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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?

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        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.

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          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.

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      I dunno, it seems like magas red line is raping children. Wish there was a higher bar but here we are.

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        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 😞.

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    Hopefully he said that without immunity from prosecution and Trump sues. Otherwise it really means nothing

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      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.

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        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…

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          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.

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          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