"blowback", right...
He's still in office. What fucking blowback?
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This is just about their image for the midterm election this year.
Yup. The timing should be raising everyone's eyebrows.
I think we just have to accept by now that the US at large is ok with a pedophile, racist president. It's sad but, that's how it is. There really isn't an excuse anymore why Washington DC isn't being overrun by protesters by now except for that they don't really mind.
It's pronounced "clickbait"
The only reason he posted it was so people talked about it instead of Epstein.
I wouldn't be surprised if they told Republicans to pretend to be offended just so it would become a story.
Stop falling for obvious distractions
The GOP have been silent during this entire Epstein saga. This has to do with them losing in special elections. That's why they finally woke up.
They haven't "woken up" that's the entire point I'm trying to make.
trump posting this video distracts from Epstein, but what's more distracting is some Republicans who are in the greatest threat of losing their seats getting a chance to distance from trump. Which starts another cycle of people talking about it instead of Epstein.
I don't think he opened up his laptop, created the video, then posted it himself. It's best to keep in mind that there are other people behind this. Someone had the idea, someone produced a few versions, someone approved one, someone posted it. And he got to reap the reward while dodging responsibility. They're all guilty.
The regime is more than one person
I think it has more to do with people not talking about him trying to nationalize the elections. Using ICE to intimidate voters in democratic centers, Usng the SAVE act disproportionately disenfranchise groups more likely to be democrats: women, people of colour, low income, or young voters. These are key issues which need pushback on this year.
If Obama had done this most of America would be calling for impeachment but since it's a white old fart it seems that doesn't apply to him...
"He grew up in different times."
he grew up ??
Physically, yes. Mentally, no.
Practically every controversial thing trump has done would've gotten anyone else into scalding hot water. With him, it almost strengthens him. The absolute only way things could've been sensible is if "grab them by the pussy" would've ended his political career. I feel pretty confident it strengthened his popularity by a lot. Even women were defending him. Listening back to some older podcasts recently where they're talking about that, it was bizarre how people explained that shit away. "It clearly was locker room talk, he just was saying women liked him" 🤮
People actually defended him on the "they're sending their rapists and murderers" speech too, saying it was a lie that it was racist. If he had decades of being a normal human and never saying anything racist, I could kind of see a possibility he used bad language and didn't mean it that way, however the context of Trump is he's been known to be racist for decades and he literally did zero things to back off of those comments. He doubled down on the racism and almost always has...
I don't know what the future holds, and the actual damage done is awful, but the precedents set may be actually worse.
Trump has no strength by himself. It's all the fascists and their colaborators giving him power.
If I was on a list of pedophiles and the public keeps asking to remove the reactions on that list that hide me on that list.
I would make up some false rage to distract the public from the Epstein list, like putting heads of the Obama's on apes.
What are the odds we're gonna get a hard R on camera before he croaks? A year ago I would have said unlikely but now I'm not so sure.
Little children are tRUMPs weakness. The have been for about 7 decades or so.
been a vile racist for his entire adult life
This suggests that there was once a time where he wasn't racist - as a kid and as a teenager. Honestly, as a kid he probably threw rocks at people if they didn't correspond to the color code.
Yes, it’s Trump’s shitposting that’s the problem, not the massive coverup of the Trump-Epstein child rape blackmail operation in which most of the world elite are implicated.
This distraction is cope at best.
These fucking headlines.