How ironic that the GOP Evangelicals hold this Trump Creep up as their leader because they are mostly concerned with issues that center around sex: birth control, same-sex marriage, bathrooms, abortion..... Some twisted reasoning going on here in these "christian" heads!!
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The people I want to hear apologize are McConnill, Ryan, Chaffetz, Ayotte, McCain and many others. They've known all along what Trump isand still support him. He hasn't changed. He's still uses the same language. It's time for the republican party to stand for some sense of decency but my bet is they won't.
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The one group that won't abandon Trump. Christian Evangelical Preachers. Mr Trump's Immoral Majority. The Trump Family Values where you objectify your own daughter as a sex object. Politicians should be ashamed, these people are the worst sort of hypocrites that make Renaissance Popes look pure.
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Apology not accepted. He was talking at the American people, you could see his arrogance in the video taped message. Apparently the new standard of the Republican Party and its nominee is to condone sexual assault against women and make it legal. This is outrageous.
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In the language of locker room banter, language best understood by Trump supporters, "he is toast."
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I am only surprised that "Anyone" would be surprised. That means those who have endorsed him and those that are already offended by him. If this is shock and awe to you, you haven't been paying attention.
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Will make no difference. Beyond racists and xenophobes, the people who vote Trump do so for one of 4 reasons: 1) the perception that his tax ideas will be better for business; 2) perception that their gun rights will be protected; 3) his so-called anti-abortion stance; 4) inability to imagine a woman in charge of the country. Anything else, from this recent lewdness to all his other moral and ethical offenses make absolutely NO DIFFERENCE to these voters. Trump voters, excepting those who hold deplorably racists views, are single issue voters--and there issues are one of the four noted above. Remember this is a man who described his voters as so loyal that he could shoot a person on Fifth Avenue and they would still vote for him. His comment has proven true.
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if you don't mind an observation, it sounded to me like Donald was testing the young Mr. Bush to feel him out. I don't know if Donald is gay, but that conversation seemed like an old man grooming a younger man.
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People - many people - have died for our country. Mr. Trump dishonors their sacrifices.
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Donald Trump is the face of the GOP today.
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Why is anyone surprised about what Donald Trumps says about women? His chauvinism and misogyny has been well known for decades.
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Trump owned beauty pageants, hung out at the Playboy mansion. How is anyone surprised by his boorish behavior. It has always been thus. Men of a certain generation. Ring a ding ding. And such. Rat Pack. Rudy Guiliani. Newt Gingrich. Steve Bannon. Roger Ailes. Bill Clinton et al.
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Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" will hold anyone who still votes for Trump after this, starting with those who rationalize his comments. Remember: This isn't really about the words he used, it's about the fact that he walks around thinking like this about women.
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"And the Republican establishment has remained staunchly in his corner."
That is because they have absolute obedience to one leader irrespective of what he does. Sadly, Mr. Pence and others have placed Mr. Trump before God. Anybody that knows the bible line by line, precept by precept would understand that Mr. Trump needs prayer not power to hold the highest office in our country. Führerprinzip has the majority of republicans sticking with Mr. Trump.
Women, Minorities, Disabled and Muslims are Untermenschen to Mr. Trump, so this doesn't surprise me. He really could, "shoot someone" and the Republican Party wouldn't care. The real Republican Party died July 19, 2016 when Mr. Trump became the nominee.
That is because they have absolute obedience to one leader irrespective of what he does. Sadly, Mr. Pence and others have placed Mr. Trump before God. Anybody that knows the bible line by line, precept by precept would understand that Mr. Trump needs prayer not power to hold the highest office in our country. Führerprinzip has the majority of republicans sticking with Mr. Trump.
Women, Minorities, Disabled and Muslims are Untermenschen to Mr. Trump, so this doesn't surprise me. He really could, "shoot someone" and the Republican Party wouldn't care. The real Republican Party died July 19, 2016 when Mr. Trump became the nominee.
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Corroborates what this man has been conveying for so long! How can Republican get it so wrong?
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Of all the Bushes who were torqued off the way that Trump ruined "low energy" JEB!s campaign, Billy was the least likely Bush to fire off the torpedo amidships. Of course, Billy had to reveal himself as a relentless suckup to put himself in be position to be in the middle of the mess.
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As horrific as this is, he is still a better, safer choice than the corrupt, lying grifter Hillary Clinton. Neither of these disgusting people should be anywhere near the Oval Office, may God help help us all no matter which of these POS's wins in November.
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Okay -- his remarks are offensive. Perhaps they are also wishful thinking? How many books and conversations much like this have we all heard of read that feature the triumphant male boasting -- of deeds either done or made up? Really? Anyone wondering what someone like John Edwards might have said when he was boasting? Never heard that, did we? And he was a man having an affair and a child while married to a woman dying of cancer who stood beside John as he campaigned for President!! And we knew NONE of that until later. Trump is what he is -- but my guess is, he's not a lot different than many powerful men. He is a target for the Left though, not their hope. In the end, that's what matters.
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Is a this view of how Trump treats women a forecast of how he will treat the rest of us if given the power of the President?
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As despicable (and sadly, unsurprising) as these tapes are, I can't help but wonder--is this just the tip of the iceberg? Is this Trump's Bill Cosby moment of reckoning?
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Game over for Captain Comb Over. He now cannot possibly win, clearly. A relief. However, far better never to be shot at, than to be shot at and missed. Time now for a long look in the national mirror. How did he ever get that close? What have we almost become?
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Why haven’t we heard anything about the Valley Forge Military Academy and the Wharton School canceling their diplomas to him? He obviously didn’t learn a single thing from them he needed to know.
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When Trump bragged he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any votes, who would've guessed he was talking about suicide?
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Wonderful editorial and I hope it gets out to those who need to read it. But I'm worried that for some Republicans we know Trump falling out of favor will boost Gary Johnson of the third party. My father considered voting for Johnson because he dislikes Trump. Once he looked a little deeper into Johnson after the Aleppo comment he found a number of things to dislike about his policies and, as he says, Johnson's incredible lack of knowledge about anything. 'That guy has no business being president'.
He's (perhaps reluctantly) voting for Clinton. He also says he thinks Republicans who won't vote for Clinton should stay home because Johnson, though he seems like a nice guy, has no idea how to run a country in today's world. The U.S. isn't an island. I'm glad we're hearing about Trump but perhaps word needs to get out about questioning Johnson's fitness for the office before it's too late.
He's (perhaps reluctantly) voting for Clinton. He also says he thinks Republicans who won't vote for Clinton should stay home because Johnson, though he seems like a nice guy, has no idea how to run a country in today's world. The U.S. isn't an island. I'm glad we're hearing about Trump but perhaps word needs to get out about questioning Johnson's fitness for the office before it's too late.
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I'm just surprised Trump hasn't hired Bill Cosby to be one of his advisors.
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Who knew that video tape would play such a key role in the 2016 Presidential Election? And, who knew that Donald J. Trump would channel Chicago Mayor Richard Daley when his press secretary beseeched the media to "quote him not on what he said; but, what he meant"! And, how clever of Mike Pence to deflect all attacks on Trump by simply saying "Oh come on, he never said that". Lincoln would be so surprised to learn that "the world would duly note and long remember what we say here" because video tape, unlike Trump and Pence, does not lie.
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Very Lincolnesque. Billy Bush too should be shown th door.
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True this was a lewd comment, but is it not factual? He is right, but everyone seems to be offended by the truth. Come on, Mick Jagger is one ugly man and yet women throw themselves at him. So what's the difference? Is it because he actually said what everyone already knows but isn't willing to vocalize?
We already elected and re-elected Bill Clinton while everyone knew he was cheating on Hillary and his behavior did not change while he held office either.
While I do not support Trump for a list of other issues, this should not make any difference. He just said what everyone thinks and knows. It may be wrong, but it's true and the truth hurts.
We already elected and re-elected Bill Clinton while everyone knew he was cheating on Hillary and his behavior did not change while he held office either.
While I do not support Trump for a list of other issues, this should not make any difference. He just said what everyone thinks and knows. It may be wrong, but it's true and the truth hurts.
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I can't wait to hear what giuliani has to say.
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What kind of exculpatory explanation is "locker room banter?" Isn't that just a venue for socially acceptable misogyny?
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I'm no fan of Trump, but this is locker room banter. Mrs. Trump is the one that should be really hurt.
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His supporters will say, "Yeah, but at least he's not a baby killer like Hillary." Really, for Christian Conservatives, it's all they have left in the way of moral high ground. They better hope it's enough to keep us out nuclear conflict.
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He should drop out.
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Vice Presidential nominee, Mike "I-get-down-on-my-knees-once-a-day" Pence, will say that Donald Trump "never said those things." All of the latest banter just proves that the Clinton-Kaine ticket is running "an insult-driven campaign."
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What Trump has said is deplorable. How many of his supporters are in this basket with him?
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Trump is a 70 year old child star.
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To all those who have been saying deplorable things about President Obama and his family for the past 8 years I have only one thing to say. You are witnessing examples of black class and white trash. Can you see the difference?
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Irrelevant.
The NY Times promotes far worse behavior.
This won't make a bit of difference in the election except make the upcoming debate the most watched one in history.
The NY Times promotes far worse behavior.
This won't make a bit of difference in the election except make the upcoming debate the most watched one in history.
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What Trump did was wrong, but lots of men have done it and it is not assault. Many years ago, a young woman was sitting in my living room. I simply walked up to her and kissed her. I did not ask permission. Was it assault? We were married for 26 years after that kiss.
Please do not hype language. The NYT editorial board should know the English language a little better and should not be corrupting Shakespeare's language.
Please do not hype language. The NYT editorial board should know the English language a little better and should not be corrupting Shakespeare's language.
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Unfortunately, haven't we already established the precedent that sexual harassment & assault are not disqualifiers for the White House? And how should we feel about those that stand up in defense of such disgusting humans (I include the NYT in this list)?
Vote None of the Above!
Vote None of the Above!
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I have stopped wondering how Creepy Clown mania got started.
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There is something exaggerated and disingenuous in the outrage following the public sharing of comments Trump made a decade ago. From both sides.
Trump is sorry he said that. Not that sorry about the behavior, or at least he doesn't say. Plus, it is - according to him - (a) not as significant as behavior of Bill, who is not running for anything now, and (b) not as important as the important issues he is running for (wall, American apartheid, race to third world status). He is sorry that you had to hear that tape. Is about it.
The left is saying: "see I told you so." Yes, you did. But, cut the fake outrage.
But the hottest air is coming from those in the center, and Trump's republican apologists. Center is screaming: "OMG!" Really? It took this tape to tell you all that Trump is a dangerous misogynist, a sexual predator, using his power to have his way with women when he thinks he can get away with it? Cut the hypocrisy folks!
And then his surrogates and apologists. "This is not the Donal Trump we know. The DT we know is a genius, warm, fuzzy, cuddly, driven, heroic, godlike . . ." Oh give it a rest. I am sure he has a heart of gold, it is just his thinking, attitudes, behaviors, positions, and beliefs that are foolish and dangerous, unworthy and calamitous for America. We can agree on that.
Trump is serving as the reagent for America. He will clearly identify the sleaze among us (those will be his supporters come election day), and others.
Kalidan
Trump is sorry he said that. Not that sorry about the behavior, or at least he doesn't say. Plus, it is - according to him - (a) not as significant as behavior of Bill, who is not running for anything now, and (b) not as important as the important issues he is running for (wall, American apartheid, race to third world status). He is sorry that you had to hear that tape. Is about it.
The left is saying: "see I told you so." Yes, you did. But, cut the fake outrage.
But the hottest air is coming from those in the center, and Trump's republican apologists. Center is screaming: "OMG!" Really? It took this tape to tell you all that Trump is a dangerous misogynist, a sexual predator, using his power to have his way with women when he thinks he can get away with it? Cut the hypocrisy folks!
And then his surrogates and apologists. "This is not the Donal Trump we know. The DT we know is a genius, warm, fuzzy, cuddly, driven, heroic, godlike . . ." Oh give it a rest. I am sure he has a heart of gold, it is just his thinking, attitudes, behaviors, positions, and beliefs that are foolish and dangerous, unworthy and calamitous for America. We can agree on that.
Trump is serving as the reagent for America. He will clearly identify the sleaze among us (those will be his supporters come election day), and others.
Kalidan
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So overweight Donald Trump exhibited swinish behavior. Mr. Piggy? And Speaker Ryan, Governor Pence, Chairman Priebus were shocked -- absolutely shocked -- at such juvenile conduct? Hypocrisy rules -- unfortunately literally.
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Were Mr. Trump's words rude and offensive? Absolutely. Do men talk about women among themselves? Yes. Are there conversations that are more reprehensible than others? Also true. But what is clearly undeniable is the surfacing of this tape at this precise moment of the campaign is even more hineous and despicable that Mr. Trump's words. Make no mistake, this is no
coincidence, but a well crafted plan by the MSM in their campaign to smear Mr. Trump...which could backfire. There is a difference between a guy's "locker room talk" and someone who has been accused REPEATEDLY of rape, has denigrated the White House, lied under oath, and has been impeached by
his actions. It also goes to show the character of the woman who happens to be his wife, who went into attack mode and belittled, insulted, persecuted
and denigrated her husband's accusers, and by her actions supported and protected a rapist...that woman is running for the Presidency of the United
States of America, and calls herself a women's advocate, but is no more than a hypocrite and a liar.
coincidence, but a well crafted plan by the MSM in their campaign to smear Mr. Trump...which could backfire. There is a difference between a guy's "locker room talk" and someone who has been accused REPEATEDLY of rape, has denigrated the White House, lied under oath, and has been impeached by
his actions. It also goes to show the character of the woman who happens to be his wife, who went into attack mode and belittled, insulted, persecuted
and denigrated her husband's accusers, and by her actions supported and protected a rapist...that woman is running for the Presidency of the United
States of America, and calls herself a women's advocate, but is no more than a hypocrite and a liar.
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Dear Republican Leadership,
Please stand up against Mr Trump. Your party will be defined by your lack of courage to denounce Mr Trump. The need to win the election at any cost to our country drives your support.This hateful and mean man does not represent your party. Be brave and say no to Mr Trump.
Do the right thing,
With regards,
A woman against Mr Trump
Please stand up against Mr Trump. Your party will be defined by your lack of courage to denounce Mr Trump. The need to win the election at any cost to our country drives your support.This hateful and mean man does not represent your party. Be brave and say no to Mr Trump.
Do the right thing,
With regards,
A woman against Mr Trump
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I am no longer shocked, outraged, or disgusted by Trump or anything that continues to come to light. I knew who he was years ago.
What is shocking, outrageous, and disgusting, as you correctly point out, is that Trump's enablers continue to support, endorse, and lie in the gutter with him. Blind obedience to the party is both cowardly and stupid. And it's exactly that kind of obeisance, cowardice and stupidity that allows dictators and fascists into power.
What is shocking, outrageous, and disgusting, as you correctly point out, is that Trump's enablers continue to support, endorse, and lie in the gutter with him. Blind obedience to the party is both cowardly and stupid. And it's exactly that kind of obeisance, cowardice and stupidity that allows dictators and fascists into power.
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To paraphrase coach John Wooden, "The true test of a man’s character is what he says when he doesn't know the mic is hot." Sadly, the despicable, criminal statements made by Trump on the 2005 tape may be the most honest things he has said throughout this horrible campaign.
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Has anyone seen or heard Melania since the convention? I think this alone tells you that Donald Trump is indefensible.
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Hook, line and sinker, the Republican party owns this pervert.
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Memo to: Evangelical Christian Trump supporters
Please update your records.
In addition to serially violating the Ninth Commandment (the one about bearing false witness) please add the Seventh Commandment (adultery) to your Trump Achievement Roster.
How proud you must be...
Please update your records.
In addition to serially violating the Ninth Commandment (the one about bearing false witness) please add the Seventh Commandment (adultery) to your Trump Achievement Roster.
How proud you must be...
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Pence, Ryan and Ayotte have already answered your questions.
Pence is a "proud" partner of a man who is the antithesis of Christian values. Pence is not a true Christian. Anyone who backs laws that would systematically exclude a certain group from the marketplace of everyday life i(as he did in Indiana) is not a Christian.
Ryan is his own role model for his children: just look at the picture of him smiling in military garb with a rifle to endear his bosses at the NRA.
Ayotte, shows us time and again -- on guns, social policy and her unyielding support of Trump -- that she is a vacuous, spineless and whipsawed politician.
The only silver lining in Trump's campaign is that he has exposed the Republican facade -- their lies, greed, pandering and lack of moral fiber.
Pence is a "proud" partner of a man who is the antithesis of Christian values. Pence is not a true Christian. Anyone who backs laws that would systematically exclude a certain group from the marketplace of everyday life i(as he did in Indiana) is not a Christian.
Ryan is his own role model for his children: just look at the picture of him smiling in military garb with a rifle to endear his bosses at the NRA.
Ayotte, shows us time and again -- on guns, social policy and her unyielding support of Trump -- that she is a vacuous, spineless and whipsawed politician.
The only silver lining in Trump's campaign is that he has exposed the Republican facade -- their lies, greed, pandering and lack of moral fiber.
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So the con-man is also a dirty-old-man.
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Now we'll see if Clinton was right when she called half of Trump's supporters a basket of deplorables.
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This makes me sad for what this says about Americans willing to support this
"man". He is not a man, he is a boy, a child even.
"man". He is not a man, he is a boy, a child even.
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Extremely unbecoming for a presidential candidate on whom we impose high standards of decency.
But Trump's behavior and gutter talk might be the norm among arrogate wealthy men -- who often became high-achievers BECAUSE they are arrogant.
And make no mistake: women behind close doors can be just as crass talking about men. I overheard their gutter talk often in my life. (See how women can be just like men:
"Would the World be Better If Women Ran It?" http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/would-the-world-be-better... )
And Democrats, because the big media protect them, have not heard Hillary's sexism, her misandry:
"Hillary’s anti-male subtext, to which so many women voters are plainly drawn, flared into view when she crowed to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her proven skills in sex war: “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak….I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.” The prestige media tried to suppress Hillary’s gaffes here (which breezily insulted both men and Native Americans) by simply not reporting them. ... there you have Hillary’s gender theory in a nutshell: men are bums and bullies who belong in internment camps under female lock and key." -http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/its_not_about_sexism_camille_paglia_on_t...
But Trump's behavior and gutter talk might be the norm among arrogate wealthy men -- who often became high-achievers BECAUSE they are arrogant.
And make no mistake: women behind close doors can be just as crass talking about men. I overheard their gutter talk often in my life. (See how women can be just like men:
"Would the World be Better If Women Ran It?" http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/would-the-world-be-better... )
And Democrats, because the big media protect them, have not heard Hillary's sexism, her misandry:
"Hillary’s anti-male subtext, to which so many women voters are plainly drawn, flared into view when she crowed to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her proven skills in sex war: “I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get off the reservation in the way they behave and how they speak….I’m not going to deal with their temper tantrums or their bullying or their efforts to try to provoke me.” The prestige media tried to suppress Hillary’s gaffes here (which breezily insulted both men and Native Americans) by simply not reporting them. ... there you have Hillary’s gender theory in a nutshell: men are bums and bullies who belong in internment camps under female lock and key." -http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/its_not_about_sexism_camille_paglia_on_t...
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What is really sad is all the Trump supporters who will still vote for this man. As Trump himself said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and his supporter and the GOP would still support him... This just shows Americans that Party always "Trumps" common decency and moral behavior.
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For engaging in sexual assault, a half-hardhearted apology doesn't cut it.
But jail time might.
But jail time might.
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Although the Trump phenomenon was helped along by media abettors, NYTimes and WAPO editorials to the contrary notwithstanding, the media can smell red meat and prophets in the Trump assaults on women. The sharks are circling and beginning to attack. Trump will be savagely treated, as he so richly deserves, this week by the media and his phenomenon is over now, the rest is mainly digestion.
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The Republican Party is morally bankrupt. McConnell, Ryan and too many more refuse to say they won't support him. What does it take for this nonsense to stop. Murder? Than probably wouldn't do it either. I completed my mail in ballot here in Florida yesterday. I was a member of my town's GOP Committee in Vermont, Mc-Cain's County Co-Chair in 2002 and ran for town office as a Republican.
How did I vote? Straight Democratic as until the Republican Party gets its house in order and stops the ultra right wing agenda and stops nominating candidates that are beyond the pale, I will not vote for a single one of them.
How did I vote? Straight Democratic as until the Republican Party gets its house in order and stops the ultra right wing agenda and stops nominating candidates that are beyond the pale, I will not vote for a single one of them.
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Don't front of what congregation does he speak next?
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So I showed the NYT story to some of the woman with whom I work . All of them Trump Supporters sadly none of this mattered to their support .What does this prove? I don't know .In his apology Mr. Trump stated that his words don't define "who he is".My question is then , what does define who he is? What words or actions could lead any person in their same mind to conclude that this joke of a human being can lead this country? As I write this I'm watching MSNBC interview Jack Kingston as he defends Trump with the usual parry of turning the conversation to Mrs.Clinton.Sad sad sad for our country.So much death and danger in our world .So many issues that could change the way our children and grandchildren live, and this is the best we can do? The party of Lincoln? He's spinning in his grave.
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Donald Trump implores us not to judge, or better yet to dismiss, what he said he did a decade ago. But at the same time, he encourages us to judge Hillary Clinton on the basis of what her husband did 2-3 decades ago.
How can anyone not vote for him!?
How can anyone not vote for him!?
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I cannot believe our Republican nominee for President of the United States would say such things. Shocked, I say shocked! We never saw this one coming...
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Now comes more support from the "Christian's" saying he has repented .
And we already see the Republican leaders selling their soul for a man that they" think "they can control .
This is old history pretending to be repentant to gain favor and selling out for gain .
And we already see the Republican leaders selling their soul for a man that they" think "they can control .
This is old history pretending to be repentant to gain favor and selling out for gain .
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Tough one for those undecideds--the candidate who plays grab *ss with any beautiful woman he sees or the one who plays it with Wall Street. Imean, really--if you're undecided at this point (meaning you're either too attention deficit ridden to make a decision based on nearly 2 years of information or you're so in need of attention that you think playing coy about your choice for president will get you some) it's gotta be reeeeeeeeally tough. Really. Tough.
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Suicide would be his best option.
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I will dearly miss President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
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I don't know who is more immoral and dangerous: Donald J. Trump, or his supporters (Ryan, McConnell, et als.) who refuse to disavow him no matter what he says and does and all of those who still intend to vote for him as President of the United States of America.
What has happened to our country?
What has happened to our country?
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Locker room banter? When was the last time Mr Trump was anywhere close to a locker room? I'd say, he hasn't seen the insides of a gym or any sporting facility for decades!
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Candidate Trump has demonstrated his concerns with women's health, at least Hillary's and now he's revealed his outreach to women, grabbing at whatever!
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Mitch better get that Supreme Court seat filled before the election
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Remember what Michelle Obama said a couple of weeks ago without even mentioning a name...."When they go low, we go high". That certainly holds true more than ever. Mrs. Obama is one of the classiest first ladies we have been privileged to have in the White House.
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Well, The Donald has a new theme song, courtesy of Jim Morrison:
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Good night and good riddance you twisted sleazebag.
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Good night and good riddance you twisted sleazebag.
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Men and women. For our moms, wives, sisters and daughters, it has to he Hillary Clinton 2016.
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Obviously Donald Trump never matured beyond the age of sixteen. He thinks of himself as a "star" He is not. He is a pathetic loser with small hands.
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This subject will undoubtedly come up in Sunday’s debate. For the best effect, Hillary’s response should be something like: “While such behavior from my opponent is certainly reprehensible, in light of some of Bill’s history, I would be hypocritical in saying this disqualifies him from the Presidency. That said however, what REALLY disqualifies Mr. Trump are his misguided positions on climate change, taxes, health care, immigration, Iran, jobs, guns, trade, ... “
This does two things: (1) It immunizes her from Trump' likely planned attacks about her husband's indiscretions; and (2) It shifts the narrative from Trump’s brand of “trash talk” debating to an in-depth discussion of substantive issues. Very definitely, this is her turf, not his.
This does two things: (1) It immunizes her from Trump' likely planned attacks about her husband's indiscretions; and (2) It shifts the narrative from Trump’s brand of “trash talk” debating to an in-depth discussion of substantive issues. Very definitely, this is her turf, not his.
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This circus has gone on so long that this should not be a surprise to anyone. It was hinted at, spoken of, debated many times over the past year... and still there are some who would forgive his newly revealed behavior as normal "men's talk"? Shame on anyone, from citizen to leader, who does not condemn this man and speak the truth... he needs help, serious psychiatric help, and our country should not be the playground for feeding his ego or disgusting behavior. Anyone else who said or did what he does/did would lose his job or be arrested. It doesn't matter what party you support, this has nothing to do with party, Rather it has to do with what kind of country we are becoming and where we are headed. Enough is enough. Concede now or find a stand-in and end this nonsense! How can any debate with Trump in it even be worth the time at this point? It's pitiful to watch, embarrassing, and meaningless.
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Trump shot his apology from behind his desk, so he wouldn't have to wear pants. He thinks it's okay to objectify women, as long as in his mind he spells it "teats"...the proper way. Pig.
I wonder how Mike Pence chats about this to his kids. When Trump meets his wife and daughters, how does Pence square in his own mind what is probably going through Trump's?
I wonder how Mike Pence chats about this to his kids. When Trump meets his wife and daughters, how does Pence square in his own mind what is probably going through Trump's?
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Shouldn't sexual predators be in prison?
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This is what happens when there is a perceived lack of accountability. Trump World. Trump Rules.
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The 2016 Republican Presidential Election campaign is an endless loop derivative of a cross between "A Face in the Crowd" and "Groundhog Day".
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I can only imagine what the editorial Bored (sp) of the Times looks like, most likely a bunch of old mummified dead people who never knew what it was to be alive to begin with.
I worked with my hands my whole life, surrounded by tough men. Sometimes as younger men we talked trash, we never worried about microphones being present.
We talked the talk, rarely walked the walk, always wished we could.
Trump is an alpha male. If you don't like that your choice is a dried out old grandma, similar to Golda Meir or Indira Gandhi. Is that really what you want ?
Well, good luck with that.
I worked with my hands my whole life, surrounded by tough men. Sometimes as younger men we talked trash, we never worried about microphones being present.
We talked the talk, rarely walked the walk, always wished we could.
Trump is an alpha male. If you don't like that your choice is a dried out old grandma, similar to Golda Meir or Indira Gandhi. Is that really what you want ?
Well, good luck with that.
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I'm not neitherTrump nor Clinton supporter.
I had voted for Sanders . This presidential campaign is the ugliest one ever. The Clinton's strategy from the beginning is to made Trump unfit for president . From the starting début Clinton and her advisers aim to discredit the republican nominee .
Clinton and her entourage are the most corrupted people by foreign governments and especially by the Arab countries .
The Army , the NSA , and all involved in the national security and foreign policy must react to end this situation and stop these two nominees from the race to be president of the United States of America. How they can do it ? There are many windows in the Constitution and with federal laws and rules.
Neither Trump nor Clinton America deserve better to lead the world .
I had voted for Sanders . This presidential campaign is the ugliest one ever. The Clinton's strategy from the beginning is to made Trump unfit for president . From the starting début Clinton and her advisers aim to discredit the republican nominee .
Clinton and her entourage are the most corrupted people by foreign governments and especially by the Arab countries .
The Army , the NSA , and all involved in the national security and foreign policy must react to end this situation and stop these two nominees from the race to be president of the United States of America. How they can do it ? There are many windows in the Constitution and with federal laws and rules.
Neither Trump nor Clinton America deserve better to lead the world .
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Lost in all of this is the lascivious laughter of Billy Bush on the audio. That was also very "icky".
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Have you seen the move Idiocracy yet?
Highly recommended for those in the press who are isolated into the wealthy burroughs of NY City.
It explains all, in hilariously accurate portrayal of how we got to where "millions of Americans" are supporting a sexual predator.
Good news, He caught Syphilis. But, nobody is reporting on that because his medical records have not been released either. And, even when that is reported, Americans don't care.
Highly recommended for those in the press who are isolated into the wealthy burroughs of NY City.
It explains all, in hilariously accurate portrayal of how we got to where "millions of Americans" are supporting a sexual predator.
Good news, He caught Syphilis. But, nobody is reporting on that because his medical records have not been released either. And, even when that is reported, Americans don't care.
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I look for the GOP to make some move here to remove Trump from the ticket, stay tune.
I look for the GOP to make some move here to remove Trump from the ticket, stay tune.
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Mr. Trump, please don't step down before the election! We need a historic defeat that will smash the Republican Party for decades to come!
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Sexual assault is reprehensible and illegal. Period. There is no room for debate on this.
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Let us pretend that Bill Clinton bragged the same way with Trump, as he asserts. Why would saintly Trump bother socializing with a groper in chief unless they were comparing conquests?
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We have a saying in Chinese, "listen to what a person says and watch what he does ".
Can this man make America great again?? Dear American friends, please at least choose a lesser of two evils. For the sake of America and, for the sake of the world, please!
Can this man make America great again?? Dear American friends, please at least choose a lesser of two evils. For the sake of America and, for the sake of the world, please!
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Very interesting, if a man is a "star" he can grope any women, any time. So, in a Mr. Trump Presidency someone like Brad Pitt or Leonardo DiCaprio for example can grope the First Lady anytime they want to.
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Even before this episode my colleagues have taken to asking me "How's your Berlusconi doing?" (It sounds even more accusatory in Flemish-accented Dutch.)
I dread Monday morning.
I dread Monday morning.
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Every woman has had encounters with vile guys like this. They don't even care that you are obviously viscerally repelled by them. You learn to identify them and to dodge them as much as you can -- unless you are stuck working for one, every woman's nightmare. They leer, they make unwelcome off-color jokes, they stand too close, they "accidentally" brush against you. They turn your stomach.
How is it possible that one of these pigs might actually become our president? How did we get here?
How is it possible that one of these pigs might actually become our president? How did we get here?
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Did anybody else notice the resemblance of Trump's video recorded sexual assault "apology" and his commercial for Trump Steaks? And both failed miserably. Everyone knows he's a sleaze bag- always was, always will be. Poor Melania(?). And Ralph Reed and the peudo-Christians still back him, even after this. Can't wait to hear Newt and Rudy on this one!
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To quote a man of rectitude in speaking truth to a fascist, bully and demogogue of another era, Joseph Nye Welch confronted Joseph McCarthy on June 9, 1954.
"You've done enough. At long last, have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you even read the U S Constitution?"
Words to reflect on today and a stunning coincidence. Both Trump and McCarthy retained the evil Roy Cohn as their legal counsel. Our country must shed itself of another monstrous and dangerous sociopath, Donald Trump.
"You've done enough. At long last, have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you even read the U S Constitution?"
Words to reflect on today and a stunning coincidence. Both Trump and McCarthy retained the evil Roy Cohn as their legal counsel. Our country must shed itself of another monstrous and dangerous sociopath, Donald Trump.
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Sorriest political season ever.
Maybe four years from now both major parties will nominate worthy candidates. They sure didn't do it this time.
Maybe four years from now both major parties will nominate worthy candidates. They sure didn't do it this time.
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The liberals can't stop him with everything they've tried to do so far, so now dig up something from his past to smear him. How many millions of men bragging to their bros about their exploits, have said similar things? But liberals are so pure, they have never done anything like that.
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Donald Trump has had three wives – a child born out of wedlock – and several times over the past week has attacked specific women – not for entertainment – but for what he perceived would be political advantage.
Now we have evidence of him bragging about his unwanted grabbing and groping the genitalia of unsuspecting women.
And he’s going to give moral and marital advice to Hilary Clinton???
He claims her sin was to be overly aggressive in defending her husband and marriage – but – none of his three wives have come forward to defend him.
When he claims that this new misogynistic revelation doesn’t represent ‘who I really am’ – or claims that ‘no one respects women more than I do’ – all we hear from his three wives is deafening silence!!
Now we have evidence of him bragging about his unwanted grabbing and groping the genitalia of unsuspecting women.
And he’s going to give moral and marital advice to Hilary Clinton???
He claims her sin was to be overly aggressive in defending her husband and marriage – but – none of his three wives have come forward to defend him.
When he claims that this new misogynistic revelation doesn’t represent ‘who I really am’ – or claims that ‘no one respects women more than I do’ – all we hear from his three wives is deafening silence!!
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I've been in a locker room once a day 5 days a week for years and never heard anything that low. He should change athletic clubs.
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Secretary Clinton should refuse to shake hands with this piece of filth.
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Saturday morning, October 8th at 9AM and it appears that Mr. Pence has no thoughts or feelings about this. Look the other way is the Pence way. Some pair, these two. Some pair.
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I'm waiting for Mike Pence to deny that Trump really said these things.
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Hillary called Trump voters deplorable. If they vote for this dirty old man now, they are.
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The Real America's Problem is not Trump. But who would vote for trump
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Any self-respecting candidate for President would have withdrawn himself from the race.
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I hope I don't have to wait 4 years for this man to go away.
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Changed? Never. Trump is nothing but a con man and an entitled creep ala Roger Ailes. He apologized because he was finally pushed against the wall by the GOP. Then he politicized it into a prepared statement. Where is his apology to Mexicans, to Muslims, the disabled, the Khans and the many women he has demeaned over his lifetime? Too little, too late
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Gosh, who could ever have predicted this would come to pass?
Trump is done. He's no longer the "problem". He was the flu, after a bad time we got over it, still weak but starting to mend, thanks for asking.
But we still have to go to work on Monday morning and, you know, I really think I caught that flu from the water cooler.
Trump was the flu, but the true sickness in this country is the Republican Party water cooler. This nasty, vulgar, lazy, uninformed man was their choice.
They could have stopped him 18 months ago, but for their own reasons, they didn't want to. They loved his calls to violence, they loved his sneers at women, they loved that he was a One-Man Show, none others need apply.
Of course, he needed a 'running mate'. So, on the off-chance that he won, they gave him Mike Pence, a "religious" man recently given to warring with Planned Parenthood, gays and women's Lady Parts.
We watched this "Glorious Warrior For God" the other night.
He never answered any question put to him (Korea?), never once defended Trump or a "Trump Policy" - which is not the same as the Republican Party Platform - in fact, he slicked through the night without mentioning Trump's name.
What a jewel! What a tool!
What an ace up the Republican Sleeve!
In fact, he's as ethically hollow as Trump was.
He's an empty suit with a close-cropped head of hair.
But, gee, he sure does show well after Rumpily-Dumpily Donald, doesn't he?
In fact, he's part of the diseased water cooler back at work.
Trump is done. He's no longer the "problem". He was the flu, after a bad time we got over it, still weak but starting to mend, thanks for asking.
But we still have to go to work on Monday morning and, you know, I really think I caught that flu from the water cooler.
Trump was the flu, but the true sickness in this country is the Republican Party water cooler. This nasty, vulgar, lazy, uninformed man was their choice.
They could have stopped him 18 months ago, but for their own reasons, they didn't want to. They loved his calls to violence, they loved his sneers at women, they loved that he was a One-Man Show, none others need apply.
Of course, he needed a 'running mate'. So, on the off-chance that he won, they gave him Mike Pence, a "religious" man recently given to warring with Planned Parenthood, gays and women's Lady Parts.
We watched this "Glorious Warrior For God" the other night.
He never answered any question put to him (Korea?), never once defended Trump or a "Trump Policy" - which is not the same as the Republican Party Platform - in fact, he slicked through the night without mentioning Trump's name.
What a jewel! What a tool!
What an ace up the Republican Sleeve!
In fact, he's as ethically hollow as Trump was.
He's an empty suit with a close-cropped head of hair.
But, gee, he sure does show well after Rumpily-Dumpily Donald, doesn't he?
In fact, he's part of the diseased water cooler back at work.
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Trump's tape explains rape culture.
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Hillary Clinton — a woman who aspires to represent the highest ideals of the nation to her fellow citizens and the world — is a callus and abusive career politician with a long trail her sleazy disregard for the people and the laws of the United States of America. The difference between Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump is: Hillary Clinton is corrupt & always lies and Donald Trump is ethical & always tells the truth. Both Hillary and Donald, just like all people, make mistakes, but Donald admits his and Hillary tries to cover hers up with massive support of the deceptive Democrat owned media.
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"Has the Republican party no decency?" They must disavow this man, now.
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Let's not forget that Trump is the face of who the GOP really is.
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We are long past the point of being shocked by Trump. Yes, there is gambling in Casablanca.
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"Locker Room banter"? How low-ball can journalists reporting on a private conversation between men get? Lewd is lewd, and lewd IS in our culture! To blazon the word "P- - - Y with photos of yowling cats on the front page of the Daily News? This will just get white supremacists and their crude ilk that banter in locker rooms in a lather to vote enthusiastically for Trump. I dislike Trump for more reasons than a Hydra has heads, but a low blow is a low blow, and believe it or not, I feel something pejoratively akin to sympathy for Trump. Potty mouths exist among the nicest men and nicest women. And some journalists have no idea how raunchy the catty talk about men that women together often indulge in! We don't consider Trump to be fit for office, but it's not because of his common potty mouth - and it's a bloomin' wonder that such as his Veep pick Pence, a Christian conservative, and all the other holier-than-thou Christian leaders of the Tea Party and Trump for President Movement don't mind Trump's mouthing obscenities. Lewdities. Though I am not of the Republican suasion (major hypocrisy from the GOP leaders being the bywords of this grotesque presidential election campaign) I feel a little something like sorrow for Trump getting his free locker-room speech bandied about on the lamestream and mainstream social media. Men are men, bless their little hearts, And women are women. Lord have mercy on all of us, lewdies and hypocrites. Vote for Mrs. Clinton.
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Where will Trump STOP? I'm beginning to wonder if his hunger for power--or "winning" as he conceives of it--will stop with words. His closest kindred in global politics is not to Putin but to Duarte in the Philippines who says flippantly he would like to kill millions of human beings. Given the timbre of Trump's supporters, they will only cheer Trump on.
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When I watch a Donald Trump rally there are inevitably a young group of men in the crowd behind him who, like Billy Bush, sit in awe of Donald Trump and are most excited when Trump mouths his most vile attacks on whomever it is he's trying to humiliate that day. Had Trump been a better person he could have been the role model these young men apparently lack. Instead Trump offers them the callous slob Donald Trump is at 70 years old.
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Whether his microphone is on or off, Trump has no decency.
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While the tape may tell us something about the "Donald" that we didn't already know or suspect, it tells us more about the Republican Party. His disparaging remarks about Mexicans, Muslims, and John McCain should have been enough to send even the most fervent GOP supporter looking for a better candidate among the 17 who started in primary season. But instead of trashing Trump when they had their chance, they allowed him to bully his way to the nomination, mostly out of cowardice. They were afraid to confront his supporters.
Now he is your guy and you own him and his actions, reprehensible as they may be.
Maybe after another eight years in the wilderness, you will actually become part of the governing body, not the obstructionist, racist entity evident during the past eight years.
Now he is your guy and you own him and his actions, reprehensible as they may be.
Maybe after another eight years in the wilderness, you will actually become part of the governing body, not the obstructionist, racist entity evident during the past eight years.
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Have we become so partisan and so myopic that we fail to see where this catastrophe of a man could lead us?
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This is not just braggadocio. Even the most insufferable cads would draw the line on bragging about sexual assault.
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http://www.davidlisak.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/RepeatRapeinUndetectedR...
This is a digest of several studies of men who sexually abuse women and were never held to account as compared to their incarcerated cohort. About 2% to 7% of men think and act like Trump, but many men are damaged by hanging around with such a negative influence. Among the 15% who test taste Donald's transgression, the remainder are disgusted with themselves, but unlikely to warn others off the marauder out of merciless shame.
Wow, NBC, you sure know how to pick them...
This is a digest of several studies of men who sexually abuse women and were never held to account as compared to their incarcerated cohort. About 2% to 7% of men think and act like Trump, but many men are damaged by hanging around with such a negative influence. Among the 15% who test taste Donald's transgression, the remainder are disgusted with themselves, but unlikely to warn others off the marauder out of merciless shame.
Wow, NBC, you sure know how to pick them...
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The GOP is officially non compos mentis.
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i feel compassion for melania. they were only married 3 months at the time and she was pregnant. this is how he shows respect for his new wife. awful. just awful. i can hear the rustle of divorce in the trees and it's getting even windier.
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From his "apology," Trump evidently thinks his attitude toward 52 percent of the American electorate is a distraction from real issues.
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Trump is a sex addict and sociopath. Reasonable adults do not blurt out this abusive trash. Yes there is a lucrative market in pornography but do you want one of it's stars as your president?
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Make Adultery Great Again.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
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The sleaziness of Donald Trump is matched only by the corruption, dishonesty, and national-security threat of Hillary Clinton. Neither is fit to be President.
What this country needs is a do-over.
What this country needs is a do-over.
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The only thing Trump really claims is that he isn't Hillary Clinton. That is all his miserable stupid sycophants claim for him either.
Everybody who enabled this jerk deserves to go down with him.
Everybody who enabled this jerk deserves to go down with him.
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A spoiled man-child, Trump is damaged goods. Every lawyer in America should take Trump to court for damages for their assaulted female clients. Trump - wealthy no more...
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Half of Trump supporters belonging in a basket of deplorables now seems a gross understatement.
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If Trump doesn't have the good sense (what am I saying, what sense?) to quit the race, as many Republican "leaders" are saying he should do so, then where is that so-called honorable running mate of his on this?
Why doesn't Mike Pence at his meeting today with Paul Ryan go on record over Trump's obscene comments? If Pence doesn't have the nerve to resign as Trump's Veep then at the very least he should stop being a mouthpiece for Trump and say what he thinks, for once in this campaign. This is beyond the pale.
DD
Manhattan
Why doesn't Mike Pence at his meeting today with Paul Ryan go on record over Trump's obscene comments? If Pence doesn't have the nerve to resign as Trump's Veep then at the very least he should stop being a mouthpiece for Trump and say what he thinks, for once in this campaign. This is beyond the pale.
DD
Manhattan
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Great. It's the sleazy, deplorable Trump versus the mendacious, contemptible Clinton.
Can we just disqualify both, cancel the election, and start over next spring?
Can we just disqualify both, cancel the election, and start over next spring?
Republicans need to decide if their party comes first or their country.
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My God, how I will miss Obama if ever this obscene pig ever becomes our next President. Unthinkable!
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How can Americans seriously contemplate electing a piece of excrement as president? What does this say about the mentality of a significant number of Americans?
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There's a difference between being a "serial womanizer" as you put it, and a sexual predator who publicly
Fantasizes about sex with his own daughter. Big difference.
I've often thought much of the vitriol directed at Bill Clinton is due to jealousy at his success with women,. Ok he loved lots of women. Trump doesn't love anyone other than himself.
Fantasizes about sex with his own daughter. Big difference.
I've often thought much of the vitriol directed at Bill Clinton is due to jealousy at his success with women,. Ok he loved lots of women. Trump doesn't love anyone other than himself.
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Okay, so the evidence of Trumps overall lack of character and general sleaziness keep piling up. Most of us, especially if you grew up in NY/NJ vicinity, knew this already and rejected him from the start (there was little reason to waffle on the who to vote for? IMO) - but where is the Democratic party, the DNC, the party leaders, those in the party who care to win the Oval and all the down-ticket races - where are they?
Why isnt the whole of the party busy and very visible presenting a pro-party, and anti-Trump narrative? Where is Pelosi? Where is Reid? Where is Booker, and the other rising Democratic rising stars? Where is Dean?(oh I see he has column today.)
I'll tell you where they are, hoping, maybe even praying that the public gets-it all on their own. Hoping that Hillary can do it all on her own. Everytime Trump, or any of their opponents shows their soft-white underbelly, they fail to step-up and stick the sword in to end it! They simply stand there, and dont act.
The GOP is morally bankrupt at this point. The ranting party of character and good xtian ethics is showing how they never were the arbiters of character and right and moral behavior- and it took a Trump to finally expose that they never owned that mantle. Now with this new Trump-tirade, re; his misogyny, most of them can't step-up and act appropriately. Not even for the women in their lives.
While the Democrats do nothing to put the sword in and finally end this year-plus long and shameful campaign.
Why isnt the whole of the party busy and very visible presenting a pro-party, and anti-Trump narrative? Where is Pelosi? Where is Reid? Where is Booker, and the other rising Democratic rising stars? Where is Dean?(oh I see he has column today.)
I'll tell you where they are, hoping, maybe even praying that the public gets-it all on their own. Hoping that Hillary can do it all on her own. Everytime Trump, or any of their opponents shows their soft-white underbelly, they fail to step-up and stick the sword in to end it! They simply stand there, and dont act.
The GOP is morally bankrupt at this point. The ranting party of character and good xtian ethics is showing how they never were the arbiters of character and right and moral behavior- and it took a Trump to finally expose that they never owned that mantle. Now with this new Trump-tirade, re; his misogyny, most of them can't step-up and act appropriately. Not even for the women in their lives.
While the Democrats do nothing to put the sword in and finally end this year-plus long and shameful campaign.
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Nothing on the Podesta emails? They seem far more important than men being men
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How hypocritical!
"let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!"
In youth we behave differently than when older. That applies to almost everyone. Donald is no different. What matters if he can steer the country out current problems? My verdict: Yes!
"let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!"
In youth we behave differently than when older. That applies to almost everyone. Donald is no different. What matters if he can steer the country out current problems? My verdict: Yes!
Roger Ailes, Trump's good friend, was fired for his behavior and Trump, yet again, will get a pass. Trump is a predator, waiting...waiting for a beautiful woman to assault - Like a tiger waiting in the dark corners for his prey - a young woman trying to network and figure out a way to succeed in business. He sees her weakness and feigns an interest in helping, but his goal is predatory. Trump, rich and powerful, goes for the kill - sexual conquest. Then the woman is thrown away.
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Always felt sorry for guys resorting to locker room talk to prove their 'masculinity'. Makes one wonder where and how they were reared. Sad.
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I wonder what rest of the world will think about Americans, if this person elected as 45th President of USA.
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Can we move the election up to this Tuesday so we can be rid of this awful person by Wednesday morning?
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And Ryan still doesn't have the backbone to withdraw his support for Trump? Even after it's clear that Trump is going to lose the election?
We know what kind of man Trump is now, in the most clear and vulgar terms.
What kind of man is Ryan? That's coming into focus.
We know what kind of man Trump is now, in the most clear and vulgar terms.
What kind of man is Ryan? That's coming into focus.
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Bill Clinton was impeached by a Republican House for his conduct. How is it that these same "moral" Republicans can support Trump, who is much worse?
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You mention Mike Pence. It’s unimaginable that he approves of this, but Pence is also the guy who thinks that there is “no causal link medically identifying smoking as causing lung cancer”, that women should not have control over their own bodies, and that LGBT citizens should not have full rights. Basically, he doesn’t mind if your kids get cancer, and actively wants to take away their rights. Is that much of a role model for them?
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Trump has disgraced himself and the republican party he is not fit to be a President of the United States he Trump has only done more damage as in let town's and turn out of fights on media he has disowned his own team in saying I can do this on my own my own way. He Trump has disrespected women's talking about a woman under there clothes and indulging on his desires of thinking of a woman as easy bait and thinking that all celebrities are alike and wanting of his imaginations. Is this who you voted for? And a biggest lier at that now he sees that everything that he ever worked for that he will loose all business with whom he known for quite sometimes Trump will not win and he cannot make up for all the things he has said Trump has lost out this race so I wonder how he sees himself in handling this debate tomorrow?
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I am a teacher in a public high school, and Donald Trump' repeated comments about all sorts of people would have gotten him expelled. He would have to be educated at home, away from kids, as they would not be safe with him in school.
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Temperment and character are on display while the camera records, but more surely when it is not.
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In terms of personal behavior, neither Bill Clinton nor Donald Trump has been a good role model for America's youth. This time we need a grown-up in office. Maybe it is time we elected a woman as president, instead?
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What kind of role model is he for children? He would do well to think about that, and start by asking himself what kind of role model is he for his youngest son (as well as his older children) and even his grandchildren.
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How low can my (ex)party go. I can no longer support a political group that supports party above country.
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Why did not the other republicans running for president use the fact that Mr. Trump pays no Federal Income Taxes and is a sleaze ball while they where running against him in the primary.
Maybe Mr. Trump ran as a republican for the sole reason republicans do not attack other republicans Since Mr. Reagan's day.
One thing about it Mr. Trump makes Mrs. Clinton look better everyday.
Maybe Mr. Trump ran as a republican for the sole reason republicans do not attack other republicans Since Mr. Reagan's day.
One thing about it Mr. Trump makes Mrs. Clinton look better everyday.
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All the bragging, sexual aggression, sniffing, egomania, mind jumping from one topic to another, unable to finish a sentence, paranoia, and simple-minded single-mindedness are all tokens of a cocaine abuser.
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Will the Republicans finally realize that their behaviors especially over the past eight, and even before that have created this mess. They have demonized President Obama (and by extension African Americans) Hillary Clinton (and by extension, all women. They have demonized Gays, Mexicans, Muslims, all the "They's" that are not 'Them".They are trying to turn back a tide that has already come in. Take a hard look around you Republicans, we are already the diverse nation that you fear so much. Let go of your fears and join with your fellow citizens in helping to make this new America as great as it can be.
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The same people that were outraged by Michelle Obama wearing a sleeveless dress are the very ones that re df ending Trump. Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds. Family values? Not my family's values.
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In my 73 years I've never known a public figure of any stripe who so disgusts me. This man Trump is an absolute blight on the body politick. How anyone can cast a precious vote for this animal just astounds me.
We Americans need to rethink who we are, what we stand for, and how we treat our neighbors around the world. This hard right-wing hatred of anyone who disagrees with them has given us this mad man.
We Americans need to rethink who we are, what we stand for, and how we treat our neighbors around the world. This hard right-wing hatred of anyone who disagrees with them has given us this mad man.
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How about that sleazy Clinton? Selling out and misleading the public on her relationship with Wall Street. Admitting that the political positions do not reflect her actual positions. Being all for the top secret trade agreements at the expense of the ordinary citizen. Selling arms to rebels so they can use them to kill innocent people and children. Directly lying to the public about her ineptitude and malfeasence. Destroying federal records, obfuscating and deceiving from the very get go.
Trump is a grease ball, but Clinton is more dangerous and pathological. Thanks NYTimes for helping create this S**T Show.
Trump is a grease ball, but Clinton is more dangerous and pathological. Thanks NYTimes for helping create this S**T Show.
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I find Trump offensive and I am not impressed with Hillary's ethics either. One thing to keep in mind is that we have had politician's in the past who would have been revealed if they had been recorded. Bill Clinton? Jack Kennedy? In the arena of attitudes about women Trump may be no different than these two men. As a woman, I think Hillary hypocritical as she stood by a man who is not much different. What message does this send to our daughters?? For money and power you live with a man like Trump and Bill Clinton?
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This New Yorker satire piece on Pence was funny even before the latest Trump Trash. We need a laugh right now.
“Pence Opens V.P. Debate by Begging Private Sector to Hire Him
By Andy Borowitz , October 4.
VP nominee Mike Pence, stunned a national television audience on Tuesday night by using his opening statement in the debate to beg the nation’s private sector for a job.
....in his 2 minute statement, the Indiana governor looked directly into the camera and said, “I’m going to get right down to it. If you run a company and you’re watching this right now, I beg you from the bottom of my heart to consider hiring me. I need a job and I need it bad.”
Pence urged employers to consider his many qualifications and to ignore his role in the 2016 campaign. “As God is my witness, I take no responsibility for this dumpster fire,” he said.
Stressing the urgency of his situation, Pence said that his political career was in ruins and pleaded with employers to visit his LinkedIn profile.
As the moderator warned Pence that his time was up, he shouted, “I can start Wednesday, November 9th!” before the camera abruptly cut away.
According to published reports, no employers expressed immediate interest in hiring Pence.”
“Pence Opens V.P. Debate by Begging Private Sector to Hire Him
By Andy Borowitz , October 4.
VP nominee Mike Pence, stunned a national television audience on Tuesday night by using his opening statement in the debate to beg the nation’s private sector for a job.
....in his 2 minute statement, the Indiana governor looked directly into the camera and said, “I’m going to get right down to it. If you run a company and you’re watching this right now, I beg you from the bottom of my heart to consider hiring me. I need a job and I need it bad.”
Pence urged employers to consider his many qualifications and to ignore his role in the 2016 campaign. “As God is my witness, I take no responsibility for this dumpster fire,” he said.
Stressing the urgency of his situation, Pence said that his political career was in ruins and pleaded with employers to visit his LinkedIn profile.
As the moderator warned Pence that his time was up, he shouted, “I can start Wednesday, November 9th!” before the camera abruptly cut away.
According to published reports, no employers expressed immediate interest in hiring Pence.”
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Why does this latest 'revelation' about the Orange one surprise anyone? It just follows a litany of obscene comments he's made in the past 15 months since launching his campaign. That he'll get roughly at least 40% of the vote and carry about 20 states should worry Americans more. It indicates the U.S. has a bigger share of racists, sexists, bigots and knuckle draggers than it cares to admit.
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So Trump was right. He could shoot someone on the street and his minions would still vote for him. That's the only monstrosity left that he hasn't yet done.
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Was Mrs Clinton wrong in describing many of Trump's ardent supporters as a bunch of deplorables (aside from grammatically converting an adverb into a noun)? How else to describe such folks who openly support such habitual behavior?
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I wonder how much of Trump's doubling down on comments, going on the offense as a defense, going to the mat for his candidacy is effort to preserve his business which is based almost entirely upon his brand: "TRUMP"?
Fame and fortune often comes even to those Presidential candidate who lose who go on to careers or potential future runs for the office. But this campaign could actually damage the one thing that is most important to him and his family, the business, post election if he loses. The TRUMP name will be tarnished and there will be many who will look at his past whether the business revelations or the way he treats and feels about women, minorities, and those who don't fit his ideals and will not want to do business with him.
Fame and fortune often comes even to those Presidential candidate who lose who go on to careers or potential future runs for the office. But this campaign could actually damage the one thing that is most important to him and his family, the business, post election if he loses. The TRUMP name will be tarnished and there will be many who will look at his past whether the business revelations or the way he treats and feels about women, minorities, and those who don't fit his ideals and will not want to do business with him.
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Have we seen and heard enough? There is an age requirement for president, and sixteen year old Trump does not meet that bar.
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as of 30 seconds ago, the Canadian border remains open, all welcome but leave the guns at home they are not wanted nor needed
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it's disturbing and disheartening to see the numbers of americans who continue to support this person, despite (or because of?) his many moral failings. is there no line of civility he won't cross?
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Fine, put aside the "locker room talk."
But what kind of person boasts about cheating on their wife? And to a casual acquaintance, no less! Locker room talk is typically between young unmarried men. Trump should be too mature for that nonsense... but we know he is not. He is in fact too immature to responsibly handle the Presidency, which requires, for one thing, discretion, which he does not possess.
Even Bill tried to lie about it. Because even though he did it, he knew it wasn't anything to be proud of. He knew it was behavior that would potentially disqualify him as president of the United States in the eyes of a substantial portion of the electorate. He knew it was not an acceptable public persona. Had it come out BEFORE he was elected, he might never have been. The Republicans would have had a field day with it.
And then there is the issue of Trump claiming that he forces himself on women because really they like it.
Yes, this sort of thinking used to be semi-acceptable (shamefully so, but there it is...)
But if you haven't noticed, times have changed. Yeah, PC stuff.
Sort of like Hillary's email server. The old rules no longer apply. She got caught.
Now it is Trump's turn.
But what kind of person boasts about cheating on their wife? And to a casual acquaintance, no less! Locker room talk is typically between young unmarried men. Trump should be too mature for that nonsense... but we know he is not. He is in fact too immature to responsibly handle the Presidency, which requires, for one thing, discretion, which he does not possess.
Even Bill tried to lie about it. Because even though he did it, he knew it wasn't anything to be proud of. He knew it was behavior that would potentially disqualify him as president of the United States in the eyes of a substantial portion of the electorate. He knew it was not an acceptable public persona. Had it come out BEFORE he was elected, he might never have been. The Republicans would have had a field day with it.
And then there is the issue of Trump claiming that he forces himself on women because really they like it.
Yes, this sort of thinking used to be semi-acceptable (shamefully so, but there it is...)
But if you haven't noticed, times have changed. Yeah, PC stuff.
Sort of like Hillary's email server. The old rules no longer apply. She got caught.
Now it is Trump's turn.
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We have a choice between a pathetic, narcissistic bore and someone with a sense of entitlement who will say anything to anyone to get elected.
Great.
I guess I'll go with the latter....lesser of two evils. I trust her with the nuclear codes.
Great.
I guess I'll go with the latter....lesser of two evils. I trust her with the nuclear codes.
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Trump this, Trump that, all day, all night, Trump, Trump, Trump. Now you are repeating his tiresome and predictable vulgarities in articles my seven-year-old may well see when he experiments with my computer. Remember that, when Trump extemporaneously offered this microburst of obscene remarks he surely uses regularly, he was not in the company of children; but children will read your retelling of the incident. So would you give it a rest? You wrote an editorial endorsing his opponent and then another to offer a thundering dis-endorsement (if there is such a word or even concept). We get it: you consider him one of those rare men "whose truthfulness you doubt a bit," to use the phrase of Henry Higgins. When, as seems inevitable, he loses the election, what are you going to write about then? Is it your plan to compensate by expanding the Fashion & Style section? I don't support Trump (or Clinton); almost none of your readers supports Trump; please stop preaching to the choir (and forgive that cliché, born of late-night fast typing). Let's all find something new upon which to shed our ink and pixels.
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Rep. Paul Ryan cancelled a one-day Wisconsin event with Trump but still supports him for a four-year, United States event as president? Hmm.
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The October Surprise meets the October Surprise. The Donald's big mouth tape crashes into a Wiki leak of More Clinton and Co. emails in which her policy positions are called into question. She is a liar - he is lout. ho hum.
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This is why we still need journalists and strong viable newspapers. The $15 a month I spend on the e-edition is one of the best investments I have made. Thank you so much.
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"I moved on her very heavily"
I wish I could un-hear that phrase. Not a pretty mental picture.
I wish I could un-hear that phrase. Not a pretty mental picture.
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Trump tries to force himself on women, backs down if he meets resistance. Pence believes in forcing women to bear children against their will, devotes political career to making that legal. Which of these things is shocking?
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The republican party is morally bankrupt, the real problem is the establishment republicans don't understand how trump came to be in their leader.
They are still saying and doing the same things, don't they understand the country is feedup, tired of them not being able to do the country's business. A perfect example: the republicans control the Congress, but can't even pass a budget....what kind of men/women call themselves republicans?...morally bankrupt indivduals who are more interested in a ideology that only divides us. They are more concerned about being a republican than being an Amercian.
I feel like a Roaman citizen watching the empire crumble around my feet.
They are still saying and doing the same things, don't they understand the country is feedup, tired of them not being able to do the country's business. A perfect example: the republicans control the Congress, but can't even pass a budget....what kind of men/women call themselves republicans?...morally bankrupt indivduals who are more interested in a ideology that only divides us. They are more concerned about being a republican than being an Amercian.
I feel like a Roaman citizen watching the empire crumble around my feet.
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In the NFL, success is the criterion. If a quarterback can do nothing right, and the coach keeps him on the field game after losing game, what happens? The general manager fires both the coach and the quarterback and hires competent replacements.
If the general manager fails in this responsibility, the owners confer, and then they fire all three.
If the GOP seeks political success with the same intensity as each NFL team seeks winning games, who stands to be fired now? Who are the "owners" who tolerated the "coaches'" choice of this clearly defective candidate?
Dorothy redeemed the fraudulent Wizard of Oz; who will redeem the GOP?
If the general manager fails in this responsibility, the owners confer, and then they fire all three.
If the GOP seeks political success with the same intensity as each NFL team seeks winning games, who stands to be fired now? Who are the "owners" who tolerated the "coaches'" choice of this clearly defective candidate?
Dorothy redeemed the fraudulent Wizard of Oz; who will redeem the GOP?
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Yes, this was a completely inappropriate comment by Mr. Trump. To put it mildly.
But actions speak louder than words. If you folks want to know what a real sexual predator is like, take a quick look at the long history of Mrs. Clinton's husband, Bill.
Yes, it's Hillary that's running for president today, not Bill. But Mrs. Clinton stands by her husband. She has made it clear he will be a major participant in her government. She even prefers the Times' describe use "Mrs" to identify her. And, as the Times reminded us earlier this week, she was an accomplice in defaming some of Bill Clinton's many victims.
Mrs. Clinton described half of all Trump supporters as "deplorable." Mr. Trump may be deplorable, but it was surely overkill to describe half of his supporters as deplorable, given the Sophie's choice voters are now facing. Both candidates say things they shouldn't, though clearly Mrs. Clinton is the lesser offender, and also has much better spin control.
The Times Editorial Board has long understated Bill Clinton's offenses against women (and men); the strongest word I've seen you use to criticize him is "flawed." For many reasons, Mr. Trump is not qualified to be President, but when it comes to the rights of women to be treated appropriately, it's not clear that Team Clinton is any better.
I'm not sure these echo-chamber editorials are doing the world any good.
But actions speak louder than words. If you folks want to know what a real sexual predator is like, take a quick look at the long history of Mrs. Clinton's husband, Bill.
Yes, it's Hillary that's running for president today, not Bill. But Mrs. Clinton stands by her husband. She has made it clear he will be a major participant in her government. She even prefers the Times' describe use "Mrs" to identify her. And, as the Times reminded us earlier this week, she was an accomplice in defaming some of Bill Clinton's many victims.
Mrs. Clinton described half of all Trump supporters as "deplorable." Mr. Trump may be deplorable, but it was surely overkill to describe half of his supporters as deplorable, given the Sophie's choice voters are now facing. Both candidates say things they shouldn't, though clearly Mrs. Clinton is the lesser offender, and also has much better spin control.
The Times Editorial Board has long understated Bill Clinton's offenses against women (and men); the strongest word I've seen you use to criticize him is "flawed." For many reasons, Mr. Trump is not qualified to be President, but when it comes to the rights of women to be treated appropriately, it's not clear that Team Clinton is any better.
I'm not sure these echo-chamber editorials are doing the world any good.
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The focus ifthe media should no longer be in Donald Trump. It should be on Republican leaders who still plan to vote for him. The media got us into this mess, and they should get us out.
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Reading these comments, I am concerned. People are comparing Trump to Bill Clinton, Rosevelt, Kennedy etc.... because they too cheated. Folks, those were all consensual - even Monica Lewinsky - read the Star Report. Was Bill wrong - yup, was he indiscreet- yup, was it consensual with another adult - yup. Remember - not Hillary, but Bill. Now, take Trump, he talks about how he gets away with sexual assault - sexual assault is sex without consent - walking up to a women and just kissing her, or walking up and grabbing her by her genitals is sexual assault. Star athletes have been kicked out of school, brought up on charges and sued as well as getting labeled as sex offenders. Whats the difference? Trump said he did it many times - so he is a repeat offender. He bragged about it when married - adulterer, he would be punched out in a bar by the very men who are saying - hey , he's all right. If a man waked up to my wife or daughter, grabbed her by her genitals and kissed her believe me, if he walked into the bar, he would not be walking out. It is not ok by a long shot and goes to a history, not one incident.
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And Hillary's speeches to Goldman Sachs which were partially revealed yesterday as well? The blatant apologizing by Hillary for the poor, misunderstood banksters who were being wrongfully blamed for nuking the financial system? Why is that not at least as bad as Trump's behavior? And at least as destructive of innocent lives?
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Actually, Trump didn’t brag about sexual assaults. He bragged that women let him grope them due to his celebrity status. He confessed to consensual groping. It’s repulsive and reason to vote against him, but it’s not sexual assault. He seems to share Bill Clinton’s sleazy sexual attitude toward women.
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Your opening paragraph says it all - and Bravo! to the NYT. This should convince just about anyone but one of his core supporters, who are those men (mostly, I would guess), who support him because *they want to be just like him*! They want all the money and fame (notoriety?) that would permit them to live in obscene opulence & treat women as subhuman variants of the species whose place in the cosmos is somewhere beneath the male heel, and who exist only to serve at their "pleasure". Unfortunately, there are probably many men who fit this vile description. But I prefer to believe that most American men are more like Mark Shields, whose comments on this behavior last night on PBS did him proud, and my own husband. They both used the same words: "This makes me sick to my stomach". Bravo to you, gentlemen. All women with any sense of self worth and every decent man eligible to vote should get to the election booth and make their feelings known.
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Trump is the absolute personification who proves that money can't buy class.
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Not defending or excusing, but let's not overreact and shoot ourselves in the foot. Who hasn't told a tasteless joke or made a thoughtless comment that they might later regret, and this was ten years ago. We can end up making ourselves look a bit too prissy and open the door to rehashing Bill Clinton's past antics in this vein. Plenty of better reasons to attack him.
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The truth is that only Trump supporters and independents get to decide whether this disqualifies Trump from the White House. Democrats and most in the media already decided that it doesn't. They've lost the moral high ground and should just refrain from looking like complete hypocrites.
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It is unreasonable to try to reason with Republicans who have not condemned Trump.
Those Republicans are morally defective and profoundly anti-American.
Those Republicans are morally defective and profoundly anti-American.
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What sickens me most that this vulgar man is enjoying the support of nearly 42% US electorate. One can get rid of him, but what about his supporters.
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Barbara Bonfigli - Rewrite of comment I sent a minute ago, correcting a misprint. If you publish please use this version--.
I was fifteen when the father of a close friend, dropping me off at my home after a school event, said he need to stop by his office. He suggested I come in to see the antique prints he'd bought on a recent trip to India with his wife and daughter. A few minutes later I was wrestling with him on his couch and screaming at him to get off me. I remember his fancy brown shoes pinning my legs. He relented and we drove in silence. He was a celebrated psychiatrist, owned a clinic, and was worshipped by his daughter. I told no one. When you're fifteen and your friend's illustrious father tries to rape you, the horror of it feels much stronger than the injustice and confusion. You think you're somehow responsible for it. It took years for me get over that night and that feeling. By the time a women is in her twenties there are so many advances, close calls, humiliations -- what the boys on the Miss USA bus are trying to dismiss as "locker room banter" -- that we either accept or excuse this behavior, or we willfully emerge from our nightmares and call it what it is: Sexual Assault. Thank you New York Times for naming it; it may help millions of girls and women retrieve their self respect. And if for no other reason, motivate them to stand up to the boys who will always laugh and look the other way, and reject Donald Trump for the sexual predator he is.
I was fifteen when the father of a close friend, dropping me off at my home after a school event, said he need to stop by his office. He suggested I come in to see the antique prints he'd bought on a recent trip to India with his wife and daughter. A few minutes later I was wrestling with him on his couch and screaming at him to get off me. I remember his fancy brown shoes pinning my legs. He relented and we drove in silence. He was a celebrated psychiatrist, owned a clinic, and was worshipped by his daughter. I told no one. When you're fifteen and your friend's illustrious father tries to rape you, the horror of it feels much stronger than the injustice and confusion. You think you're somehow responsible for it. It took years for me get over that night and that feeling. By the time a women is in her twenties there are so many advances, close calls, humiliations -- what the boys on the Miss USA bus are trying to dismiss as "locker room banter" -- that we either accept or excuse this behavior, or we willfully emerge from our nightmares and call it what it is: Sexual Assault. Thank you New York Times for naming it; it may help millions of girls and women retrieve their self respect. And if for no other reason, motivate them to stand up to the boys who will always laugh and look the other way, and reject Donald Trump for the sexual predator he is.
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The Clinton camp will issue the standard "Trump is unfit" rebuttal, which they may have already done, but this Trumpian revelation really needs to sit and marinate in the national consciousness for a bit.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but folks... when people tell their children, "You could grow up to be President someday!", is this the type of person they hoped their children would become?
Yes, I know... it's the Year of Change. But I could go out and step in front of a moving bus, and that would change my life, too. Not all change is good.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but folks... when people tell their children, "You could grow up to be President someday!", is this the type of person they hoped their children would become?
Yes, I know... it's the Year of Change. But I could go out and step in front of a moving bus, and that would change my life, too. Not all change is good.
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Married presidents have conducted affairs while in office, which is hardly something to be proud of. But at least none, to our knowledge, expressed disgust for women, surely not in the locker-room way of the Republican candidate. He bragged about grabbing women not "between the legs" as the NYTimes modestly states but using a vulgarity that journals like The New Yorker have no problem repeating, literally. Mike Pence could show his Christian Conservative credentials by resigning his status as a running mate, thereby setting a fine, albeit unprecedented, example.
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In the 1957 movie "A Face in the Crowd" a charismatic fascistic radio personality about to launch himself onto the national political stage gets brought down by an "open mic." And in 2016, a buffoon and financial grafter nominated by the GOP! is brought down in the same way. Sometimes life is just like the movies, and it is so satisfying!
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Paul Ryan won't have Trump in Wisconsin but it's ok for him to occupy the Whitehouse?
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Donald: "This is not who I am." Versus "Let Trump be Trump!"
Sanity: "Lock him up!"
Sanity: "Lock him up!"
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Donald Trump's attitudes, behavior and actions are not only extremely disrespectful towards women, they are also disrespectful towards men. His attitudes, behavior and actions have not changed or reformed since 2005... think of the disrespectful comments he made about Rosie O'Donnell and Hillary Clinton in the past weeks on national television. American Voters elect a President to represent them, their children and their communities. Donald Trump is NOT a leader. He is a rich, spoiled brat. I know many fine young 15 and 16 year old men who are far more emotionally intelligent than he is. He should not be elected President of this country. Again, his actions are not only disrespectful of American women, his actions are disrespectful of American men, Men who are fathers, grandfathers and upstanding members of their communities. The American Presidential Candidacy is not a Reality Television Game Show or an online video game. This whole journey has become disgusting. I hope and frankly pray that American men and women of all ages rise up and say enough... we have had it... I don't care HOW rich you are. You are fired.
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Another example of the sleaze Mr. Trump has brought to this campaign. Can't wait for it to be over and I am not alone in this wish.
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From Trump's lips to Satan's ears.
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Time to force Trump out and win with Ryan.
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"This is not who I am" said Donald Trump in his non-apology apology video last night.
On the contrary, what you do and say when you don't know the mike is on reveals exactly who you are.
On the contrary, what you do and say when you don't know the mike is on reveals exactly who you are.
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His so called apology shows no remorse.
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This is not locker room banter, it's the musings of a predator sizing up the prey. Lock him up!
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Anyone who works out at the gym knows that this isn't simply "locker room" talk.
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The morally ambiguous Clinton is looking better all the time.
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He was born on third base and thinks he can grope the ballgirl.
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In this American election year, more than any other election years in the past, I am reminded of the words from a Simon and Garfunkel song:
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
I feel sad for the Republican Party and for the American people.
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
I feel sad for the Republican Party and for the American people.
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This is through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole,over the rainbow and all the way around the bend. This is politics on some serious acid.
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Your move Paul Ryan. What will it take?
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"When you're a star, they let you do it." -- Donald Trump
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. " -- Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. " -- Abraham Lincoln
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Donald is his base's voice, he said it himself at the RNC. Don't worry about him. Worry about his base. If he's elected all he's going to do is spend his time on TV talking about himself. His supporters, on the other hand, will think they have carte blanche to attack women, minorities, immigrants, and anyone who doesn't look like them, with impunity. That's the real danger. Compared to his supporters Donald is a saint, believe me.
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Senator Kelly Ayotte, you said this week in your race for re-election from New Hampshire that Mr. Trump was a role model for children.
There is the perfect reason to not vote for Ayotte -- too dumb to see what is in front of her -- a horrific man who isn't a role model for anyone, anywhere unless being a cheat and liar as a businessman and a lousy husband are your goals in life.
Everyone in the GOP is beyond hypocritical -- Ryan, McConnell -- all of them. Cruz was willing to allow his wife to be made fun of by Trump, I guess he'd have been OK with Trump grabbing her crotch if wanted to because after all, Trump is a star and "they'll let you do that."
There is the perfect reason to not vote for Ayotte -- too dumb to see what is in front of her -- a horrific man who isn't a role model for anyone, anywhere unless being a cheat and liar as a businessman and a lousy husband are your goals in life.
Everyone in the GOP is beyond hypocritical -- Ryan, McConnell -- all of them. Cruz was willing to allow his wife to be made fun of by Trump, I guess he'd have been OK with Trump grabbing her crotch if wanted to because after all, Trump is a star and "they'll let you do that."
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President Kennedy and Clinton anyone? The only difference was the reaction of their respective spouse: One turned a graceful blind eye while the other turned enraged and hurled a bible.
While the NYT readership stands aghast. Let's remember college shall we? Especially the sorority and fraternity days and the behavior you and your brothers and sisters engaged in. Yes I know YOU aren't running for high office- but you probably did some things you wouldn't do now- but the fact of the matter is.. You did them! Time doesn't heal the scares upon morality- that is eternal.
While the NYT readership stands aghast. Let's remember college shall we? Especially the sorority and fraternity days and the behavior you and your brothers and sisters engaged in. Yes I know YOU aren't running for high office- but you probably did some things you wouldn't do now- but the fact of the matter is.. You did them! Time doesn't heal the scares upon morality- that is eternal.
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To all who still support Donald Trump, I ask...
"Have you no shame?"
"Have you no shame?"
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When people show you who they are, believe them.
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i care that bill clinton was worse. why, because he will be slinking back into the white house through the back door and taking a role in our lives, having done just as much to disrespect women. or more, since his weren't just locker room talk but actual young women who he then kicked to the curb. i'd like hillary a lot better if she ditched that ball and chain fast. because you know, "it would be hard for anyone to argue that the man he was then is not the man he is now." to quote this editorial.
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I would love to hear a Bill Clinton or JFK or Reagan or any men in general private or locker room conversation about women. Or any women kind of locker room conversation about men. People who claim they are better than Donald Trump in this matter are just telling you that because you are not listening to what they talk in private. Say whatever you want, but democracy is not celebrating a congeniality contest to choose a public office official. And i do not support Trump, but a can smell POPO on a 5,000 km radio. Why don't discuss candidate political platform instead?.
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I hope the door DOES hit him on the way out.
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It's funny. When I started playing the recording of that cretin making what I consider to be THREATENING comments about a woman, I could find no joy in the discovery and in fact couldn't even bring myself to listen in it's entirety. No doubt the neanderthal crowd that has been his bedrock will cheer over this recording. One does have to wonder, however, at the seemingly enormous number of WOMEN who turned out to be masochists. After all, if a woman doesn't seek or desire pain she could never support this man. But no, I found no joy in this latest revelation and the reason is that it reminds me of how hopelessly LOW the Republican political establishment AND the rank and file have sunk into the muck. Imagine what teachers will be teaching elementary grade students about "the Presidents and the campaigns". There are, as we learn quickly as we grow up, no saints in politics. Heavens, the very first election for president involved intrigue so that Washington would receive an overwhelming mandate. STILL, we DO have in our history individuals, ambition notwithstanding, who left a legacy of achievement and honor and decency that this GOP candidate and his minions seem hellbent on destroying. If THIS doesn't bring about a return to Democratic control of Congress then NOTHING will and we are truly witnessing the absolute decline of the United States as "the" world power.
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None of this is new. What bothers me is the media has had example after example of his bad behavior. So NOW you think he has crossed the line. All I can think of is the heft of the material, the media has dumped on HRC for her husband having a foundation, having a private server with 3 confidential docs on out of 66,000, and being a successful SOS with an ambassador making a mistake and going to an unsecured location. You didn't do the same with him. Wake up, you the media have enabled him to the disadvantage of the American People. It's your fault for not vetting.
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Dear Mike Pence: The dirt of those around you will eventually stain you as well.
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How can you love God and even like Trump?
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Trump is on the ropes...and HRC will not even need to deliver a knockout punch.
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In 1974 Muhammad Ali subjected himself to extreme punishment using the “Rope-a-Dope” tactic to defeat George Foreman. Maybe Donald Trump’s pulling Bill Clinton’s behavior into his defense for lewd remarks is an attempt at a “Grope-a-Dope” tactic.
Ali knew what he was doing and Foreman wore himself out by swinging wildly at the feigning Ali. Fortunately, Hillary Clinton is more perceptive than George Foreman was in 1974 because she doesn’t need to swing wildly and Donald Trump’s “Grope-a-Dope” tactic is NOT feigning.
Ali knew what he was doing and Foreman wore himself out by swinging wildly at the feigning Ali. Fortunately, Hillary Clinton is more perceptive than George Foreman was in 1974 because she doesn’t need to swing wildly and Donald Trump’s “Grope-a-Dope” tactic is NOT feigning.
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Where has the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln gone? I weep for its demise. We have met our enemy..and it is us. ISIS could do no greater harm.
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THIS is what finally disqualifies him? Seriously? After he has demonstrated for months just how shallow his knowledge of the world is, how little he knows?
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"If anyone was offended." Yes it is reasonable for him to wonder, "I could shoot somebody on Time Square," no be deal, 40%would still vote for me. This also includes the Politicians in Washington. Why should they be offended by him saying he could grab women in their ............ , of course they would be fine with it. Now lets talk about those deplorable ..........
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Who knows if that is true, and why should anyone care? Mr. Clinton is not running for president, and, at least until now, Republican politicians have not treated his private behavior as the standard by which they should be judged.
Bill Clinton is not going to be the president but he will be the FIRST MAN if Hillary is elected. First persons are looked up for moral leadership even as their spouses go about providing political/executive leadership. Senator McCaskil said during impeachment that she would not let her daughters near Bill. That he is likely to MOVE BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE with nothing to do but have a good time with whomever or whatever should be EQUALLY worrisome.
What Donald Trump said he did or could do as a 'star' (who knows, he might have been bragging as some men are wont to do) was despicable (I wonder why the women who were 'groped' or 'kissed' did not protest and file assault charges) but what Bill DID when he was the president was even more despicable. He took advantage of an intern who was barely older than his own daughter, and repeatedly lied about his sexual transgressions.
Hillary should not preach about Donald's 'sleaziness' considering her own role in attacking those 'bimbos' giving trouble to her husband and given her role as 'enabler', and expect not to be 'bitten back'. If Donald Trump returns the favor with his own attack lines on her enabling role, then it is fair game.
And then there is WIKILEAKS to worry about for you and for Hillary.
Bill Clinton is not going to be the president but he will be the FIRST MAN if Hillary is elected. First persons are looked up for moral leadership even as their spouses go about providing political/executive leadership. Senator McCaskil said during impeachment that she would not let her daughters near Bill. That he is likely to MOVE BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE with nothing to do but have a good time with whomever or whatever should be EQUALLY worrisome.
What Donald Trump said he did or could do as a 'star' (who knows, he might have been bragging as some men are wont to do) was despicable (I wonder why the women who were 'groped' or 'kissed' did not protest and file assault charges) but what Bill DID when he was the president was even more despicable. He took advantage of an intern who was barely older than his own daughter, and repeatedly lied about his sexual transgressions.
Hillary should not preach about Donald's 'sleaziness' considering her own role in attacking those 'bimbos' giving trouble to her husband and given her role as 'enabler', and expect not to be 'bitten back'. If Donald Trump returns the favor with his own attack lines on her enabling role, then it is fair game.
And then there is WIKILEAKS to worry about for you and for Hillary.
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I love the prospect of Trump losing to a woman. How will his ego ever recover?
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Trump'c candidacy is doomed, but the American tragedy is that he's still going to get about 40% of the votes of the American electorate, "no matter what."
We are getting a bitter lesson in the ugly underbelly of America: the men and women who really support Trump. The Donald is running the most incompetent and crudest campaign in American history -- every day new lows of depravity are exposed. Our very discourse is brought down into the gutter because the nominee of a major political party has made this talk "news."
A. Stanton wants HRC to take it too him: "Anything less would be a cruel disappointment to American women and girls over the mental age of 12 who want and need to see him shamed, publicly humiliated and run out of town on a rail."
HRC will do that, but I have terrible news for you -- Trump is going to get about 40% of the votes of the American electorate. Lots and lots of adult women will still vote for this man. Trump will go out laughing, and America will have the curse of the Trumpers -- the ugly sore of America exposed.
The worst defeats in American presidential history had about 20+ % margin. Tell me that either Goldwater or McGovern were worse men or worse candidates than Donald Trump? Really?
But unless something changes ... Trump will hold more of the vote than they did. There's a reason: Trump has a real constituency -- they truly want what Trump is peddling. And they aren't going anywhere...
We are getting a bitter lesson in the ugly underbelly of America: the men and women who really support Trump. The Donald is running the most incompetent and crudest campaign in American history -- every day new lows of depravity are exposed. Our very discourse is brought down into the gutter because the nominee of a major political party has made this talk "news."
A. Stanton wants HRC to take it too him: "Anything less would be a cruel disappointment to American women and girls over the mental age of 12 who want and need to see him shamed, publicly humiliated and run out of town on a rail."
HRC will do that, but I have terrible news for you -- Trump is going to get about 40% of the votes of the American electorate. Lots and lots of adult women will still vote for this man. Trump will go out laughing, and America will have the curse of the Trumpers -- the ugly sore of America exposed.
The worst defeats in American presidential history had about 20+ % margin. Tell me that either Goldwater or McGovern were worse men or worse candidates than Donald Trump? Really?
But unless something changes ... Trump will hold more of the vote than they did. There's a reason: Trump has a real constituency -- they truly want what Trump is peddling. And they aren't going anywhere...
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It's no secret that Trump is an immature, vile, piggish misogynist. What this tape also shows is that he thinks the same way about everyone, not just women. He may not think of men as sexual objects as he does women. But he does think of men as people he can disrespect and abuse at will, for his own pleasure or purpose. He has no respect for anyone else. His entire coddled, privileged life has been about himself, only. Every other person on this planet exists only to serve his interests.
In his private life, if this is how he wants to act, then so be it. America is a free country. But in the Oval Office? Leaders of other countries already think he's a cruel joke. This tape won't help his global reputation. He must NOT be President. It would be a full disaster for America, and for the world itself.
Donald Trump. Make America Grope Again.
Disgusting. And most UnPresidential.
In his private life, if this is how he wants to act, then so be it. America is a free country. But in the Oval Office? Leaders of other countries already think he's a cruel joke. This tape won't help his global reputation. He must NOT be President. It would be a full disaster for America, and for the world itself.
Donald Trump. Make America Grope Again.
Disgusting. And most UnPresidential.
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The talk is crude but the main point is that Trump admits to repeatedly committing sexual assault.
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I fear that Sunday's debate will be a mud-slinging fest - Donald's vs. Bill's misbehavior. Let's leave this out of the debate - I want Donald and Hillary to talk issues and policies, not have a tabloid expose.
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It's braggadocio. Men talking to men do it. No civilisations destroyed or countries ruined.
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It's tasteless, of course, but no worse than Trump's bigotry or what he would do to the Supreme Court.
Moreover, every GOP primary candidate basically agreed with him.
Moreover, every GOP primary candidate basically agreed with him.
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Ryan, McConnell and what's left of the GOP knew something like this was a probability, but bellied up to the bar anyway. Trump no longer outrages me, but the leadership of the U.S. Congress does. I refuse to accept such hypocrisy and lack of a moral compass by American. I respect Donald Trump more than I do either of those men. What an embarrassment. Here's the good/bad part, there's a lot more trashy Trump talk where that came from. A decade of TV? C'mon.
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What does the location of such talk have to do with excusing it? It degrades half the people on our planet whether it happens in or outside of a locker room.
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I don't think Americans vote for a president because they "represent the best in us." I mean come on.
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Now that there's cover - the Donald's own words - I'm hoping these women he's groped, bullied and assaulted will start coming forward with stories, much like the women in the Cosby scandal started talking to the media once they recognized there was strength in numbers and that people would believe and support them.
Please make yourselves known so Trump can't claim this was a one time thing or that he's 'mature' now.
We need to be rid of this guy.
Please make yourselves known so Trump can't claim this was a one time thing or that he's 'mature' now.
We need to be rid of this guy.
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Talk has real consequences. I once knew a professor who justified his sexual assault to a male colleague as being one of the perks of the job in an appeal of his dismissal.
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Men who treat women as Trump does are frightened little boys inside, trying to convince themselves otherwise.
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Occupy certainly was right about the 1%. To a person of at least normal intelligence, this obviously isn't a battle between left and right any longer. This is a battle between the globalist 1%ers who infest both parties, their financial ties that are more important to them than any appeal to patriotism or America, their frantic quest to maintain their power and the vast majority of Americans who are being laid low by globalism. They literally own the media who does their bidding daily. They want their rape of America and it's citizens to continue through open borders that drive wages down, prices up and the continuation of shipping businesses and jobs overseas in order to get that last penny in profit while they literally gut this country and it's people. Their owned MSM will stop at nothing. Digging up male small talk to try and counter the wholesale corruption of our government under obama and hillary is meant to influence the weak minded who have no concept or care of what the proggresives are doing to America. The fact that the globalist 1%ers MSM has been trying to put Trump away for so long and cannot do it shows just how deeply the aware and informed in America have come to despise them. This is the explanation for the never Trump GOP elites, the MSM and the corrupt DNC agreeing on electing corrupt hillary, laid bare.
Bill Clinton would never do or say such a thing, and Hillary would never go on offense to discredit any of his victim/accusers, right?
Wrong.
The NYT has a very selective sense of outrage; if Trump merely utters something it's disqualifying, if the Clintons engage in an actual long-term pattern of abuse, cover-up and discrediting of victims, that's a sign of virtue.
Wrong.
The NYT has a very selective sense of outrage; if Trump merely utters something it's disqualifying, if the Clintons engage in an actual long-term pattern of abuse, cover-up and discrediting of victims, that's a sign of virtue.
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I'm surprised that no one has brought up Jack Kennedy (or Jackie's choice of marriage material) to get these kind of questions of behavior in check. Or asked Melania to defend her choice of man.
This can't really be a surprise to anybody who has paid attention.
It is pretty pathetic to now see the feigned outrage by the Republican "leaders" who have been willing to risk a Trump presidency in order to save their jobs.
And maybe it will be the final death knell to the "Christian" evangelicals who have fawned over this guy.
It is pretty pathetic to now see the feigned outrage by the Republican "leaders" who have been willing to risk a Trump presidency in order to save their jobs.
And maybe it will be the final death knell to the "Christian" evangelicals who have fawned over this guy.
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At the next debate, please make sure that Hilary Clinton's podium is not within arm-reach of that pervert.
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This is a new low for a person who has stooped very low before and is certainly not the behavior I want in a president. I am appalled. People may not like everything they observe or know about Hillary, but she at least behaves like a decent, intelligent person.
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Wouldn't be surprised if his own wife (yes, the plagarizer), ex-wives, daughters or sons came out and broke away from Trump personally or politically.
How do they look in the eye anymore? How do they feel safe bringing their families around anymore?
How do they look in the eye anymore? How do they feel safe bringing their families around anymore?
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This is righteous payback for the Republican party for trashing the classy Obamas. The deserve every single moment of angst over this clown they put up to lead the party. Well deserved Repubs.
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Donald Trump admitted to sexually assaulting multiple women- does anyone still doubt that Ivana Trump was telling the truth when she said he raped her? Not only does he not belong in the Oval Office, he belongs in jail.
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Can we finally acknowledge that the great con game / uber reality show has run its course. It's time for the trumpists to open their eyes to this man (and I use that term loosely).
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The sleaze factor is why I refused to vote for Bill Cinton. However, when I would bring up Bill Cinton's lack of decency as a reservation, I was chided as a prude. Even when, years later, he lied under oath about poor M.L., he was forgiven -- after all, he was this charming, likable guy with great ideas who just had a problem with "girls." He laid the groundwork for Trump.
That being said, Hillary should be judged on her own merits, which are considerable.
That being said, Hillary should be judged on her own merits, which are considerable.
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I was under the impression that the Democrats wanted to keep us out of the bedroom of people, I guess they meant everyones bedroom but the Donald.
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I hope someone is wearing a "hot mic" during all these strategy sessions and "debate practices" at Trump Tower. If Donald, by some malfeasance of the electorate, gets elected we'll want those tapes in his "presidential" library. :-/ If he doesn't we'll want them to remind us of how awful it can get.
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Donald Trump: "The Art of the Steal". He stole millions of dollars from his contractors and workers over many years. And he's been stealing women's dignity for an even longer period of time (not to mention assaulting them).
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Quick to elect a demagogue but not a groper. We are still pitifully puritanical. Good cover for intolerance and the extremes of greed, social injustice, and hypocrisy. What took the repubs so long to know their leader's sexual appetite? Did the pence people leak the tape to get the extreme religious right in place for a power move?
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Donald Trump accuses others of the things he has done. "Mexicans are rapists." Now we hear from him an admission of sexual assault. There's a lawsuit accusing him of statutory rape (a woman is suing based on an incident when she was 13.)
Is he still getting around 40% in the polls? Unbelievable!
Is he still getting around 40% in the polls? Unbelievable!
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I grew up with men, hung out with boys and men, dated them, worked in all male environment, lived with men, etc. I never would go out with trash like Trump. I'd see them at parties, they'd say things to me and try to touch me, and I knew instinctively that they hated women.
We are not talking locker room talk, good grief, I've been the only woman with a group of men when they talked about women many times, but men who grope and grab are women haters. I turned those women haters down.
I hope the women who vote in november turn that man down.
I hope the men who vote in november turn that man down.
We are not talking locker room talk, good grief, I've been the only woman with a group of men when they talked about women many times, but men who grope and grab are women haters. I turned those women haters down.
I hope the women who vote in november turn that man down.
I hope the men who vote in november turn that man down.
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Donald Trump represents mainstream republican political party values and intellect. He speaks plainly about what he believes and could care less whether anyone other than his echo chamber thinks of him, his views or his proposed policies.
Any American who votes for Donald Trump or for any republican running for any office who doesn't explicitly reject Donald Trump as unfit to be president of our country is at his or her core being, Donald Trump.
For those voting for republicans, there really is no hiding.
Any American who votes for Donald Trump or for any republican running for any office who doesn't explicitly reject Donald Trump as unfit to be president of our country is at his or her core being, Donald Trump.
For those voting for republicans, there really is no hiding.
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His comments don't surprise me. I've heard worse but then I've never known someone running for President. What struck me more was the pandering by Billy Bush. That's what made my stomach turn. As this contest draws to the finish, maybe there will be a tape where he admits murder and still his supporters don't care. Just as he predicted.
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The most shocking thing about this latest "groping" contretemps is that anybody is shocked. Trump's public utterances are hardly less execrable than his private "banter" with the equally puerile Billy Bush.
"They're criminals; they're murderers; they're rapists?" "She had blood coming out of her wherever?" C'mon! This is a man who views other human beings as commodities for abuse and exploitation: always has, always will. We already know this.
This figure has come within a hair's breadth of acceding to the Oval Office. He is the titular head of the GOP. We need to pick up a mirror, take a good look, then smash it and walk quickly in the opposite direction. That mirror has been telling us who we are.
www.endthemadnessnow.org
"They're criminals; they're murderers; they're rapists?" "She had blood coming out of her wherever?" C'mon! This is a man who views other human beings as commodities for abuse and exploitation: always has, always will. We already know this.
This figure has come within a hair's breadth of acceding to the Oval Office. He is the titular head of the GOP. We need to pick up a mirror, take a good look, then smash it and walk quickly in the opposite direction. That mirror has been telling us who we are.
www.endthemadnessnow.org
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I feel it is time for The New York Times to simply stop giving such wall to wall coverage to Mr Trump. Enough. Voters have all the information they need about his suitability for the presidency.
Focus the remaining weeks to the elections on the positive message of Mrs Clinton.
Focus the remaining weeks to the elections on the positive message of Mrs Clinton.
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In the '90s, Trump and my parents crossed paths in the green room of the Today Show a few times when my dad made some appearances on the show to talk about medical stuff (he's a doctor). Trump hit on my mom every single time, right in front of my dad, who almost decked him.
Also, Trump would show up at the Today Show without being booked, just begging Matt Lauer to have him on. The guy is a walking childhood trauma.
Also, Trump would show up at the Today Show without being booked, just begging Matt Lauer to have him on. The guy is a walking childhood trauma.
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even if we find bodies in the walls of his estate, and film of Trump chuckling as he entombed them, I suspect it wouldn't move the needle five points; what's a few bodies compared to the imagined dozens right-wing media claims H has killed, or the millions she might ... sigh. and so it goes in country losing its soul. let's give nuclear weapons to a demonstrably broken person with the self-control of a toddler.
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Republicans nominated the best of their best, and he's the worst of the worst. Hollowed out, fully empty of all that matters, the beast continues slouching towards Bethlehem.
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He was recently married and his wife was pregnant when he made these comments saying what he wanted to do (and tried to do) to another married woman. Need I say more?
3
Yes, Donald is a sleaze ball in words and actions, most of it on record. But what gives? Republicans and Republican Leadership should be excoriating, and asking for him to withdraw. Supporting his candidature but not endorsing? That's a real cop out. Don't they know this Man is destroying their Party and taking every Republican down with him. If McCain can still supports but not endorse this vile Man, after he and fellow veterans were categorically insulted, he deserves to lose his Senate seat. So do all the other Republicans who are up for election! If Republicans don't disown Trump and asking him to step down, then they are also partners in Trump's crimes. Not only Trump but the entire G.O.P. will be responsible for their own Party's death.
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Does Trump even understand the meaning of the presidency? Does he know or remember the dignity of Washington leading his weary troops during the Revolution? Can he feel Lincoln's despair over the carnage during the Civil War? How many times has he reflected on FDR's New Deal to salvage the lives of America's poor and jobless?
From the outset of this campaign, his motives were self gratifying, not patriotic.
From the outset of this campaign, his motives were self gratifying, not patriotic.
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I wonder how those revisionist history books published in Texas and used nationwide will view this election.
Hmm. " In 2016 America experienced its first rig national election, when Hillary Clinton won by a vast majority."
Hmm. " In 2016 America experienced its first rig national election, when Hillary Clinton won by a vast majority."
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And now we will have another debate about nothing but the crude behavior of Trump & Bill Clinton... no issues that need to be talked about facing the US, domestic or foreign. Most of the news media coverage today is purely Entertainment Tonight, no substance just this kind of nonsense as we ignore the important issues that need to be addressed.
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He's not only a person with a narcassistic personality disorder (of the highest degree quite possibly) but he is a sex offender. And do we not want our sex offenders to be known to all in the areas where they roam, always as predators. Always! Why doesn't the editorial board of The New York Times use the right language to describe what he has does, what he is always--always!--planning to do? This person, for so many reasons, should be in prison. My goodness, will not those who follow him ever wake up to the truth about this truly horrible, horrible human being? Apparently not although the polls are showing that at least a few more have finally "seen the light."
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It's not only that Trump has shown himself to be a pervert and sexual predator, it's that, because he solely fixates on women's looks/bodies, he is wholly incapable of caring about a woman of his own age. That mean he's not even a man.What a loser he is.
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His supporters will not care, because once again, he is just "sticking' it to "The Man". The acceptance of this man by the deluded and desperate in the GOP is understandable perhaps, but the party leaders who are making excuses for this candidate will have to answer for their cowardice.
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If Bill Clinton's private life should be considered out-of-bounds to comment on, why are Trump's remarks (which he made in private) so highly scrutinized? Not a Trump supporter, by the way.
I don’t like corridas,even when I resent the bull. The fight, already obscene as it started, is now taking an ugly, disgusting turn. The bull is now weakened by too many banderillas on his back. The crowd is cheering at the blood coming out of his wounds and relishes at the coming spectacle of his death. The (female) toreador will try to have him make a few more attacks for the show, then will easily plunge her sword. I will turn my head away from the blood gushing out of the bull’s mouth and from his kneeling down.
But I know that many Americans enjoy that sad show.
But I know that many Americans enjoy that sad show.
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The only shocking thing about this is that it could be shocking to anyone to hear.
Trump has shown over and over again that he completely lacks empathy for other human beings and acts only in terms of his own self interests. This is nothing but the dessert in a seven-course meal of vulgarity and bigotry at the dining table of Donald Trump; it appropriately follows all the other deplorable and vulgar rhetoric and behavior we've seen from this stunted man all along.
Trump has shown over and over again that he completely lacks empathy for other human beings and acts only in terms of his own self interests. This is nothing but the dessert in a seven-course meal of vulgarity and bigotry at the dining table of Donald Trump; it appropriately follows all the other deplorable and vulgar rhetoric and behavior we've seen from this stunted man all along.
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Trump's mouth could stand a good scrubbing using a bar of Lava soap with a green Scotch scrub pad, followed by a long gargle with Mr. Clean and finished off with a rinse-and-spit of lemon-scented bleach, to get that minty fresh smell back. His brain is beyond repair; his behavior beyond forgiveness, by any reasonable human standard; and then there's that hair.
The closest thing to remorse Trump ever experiences is an angry, "Oh s---!" when he's caught with his pants around his ankles.
The closest thing to remorse Trump ever experiences is an angry, "Oh s---!" when he's caught with his pants around his ankles.
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in the "damning video", Trump recounts how he pursued a married woman, took her furniture shopping, hit hard on her but she refused to have sex with him.
This tells us that he is not the type who would force himself on women if they do not consent.
Of all woman, Hillary should not be the one to accuse 'the Donald' of infidelity when she is married to Mr. infidelity, who also served two terms as president.
Hypocrisy.
This tells us that he is not the type who would force himself on women if they do not consent.
Of all woman, Hillary should not be the one to accuse 'the Donald' of infidelity when she is married to Mr. infidelity, who also served two terms as president.
Hypocrisy.
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Every man who ever left his wife in a room with Trump is now going to wonder. And as we go into the future no man will ever leave a wife or daughter alone with him.
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"Sleaziness" puts it mildly. "Depravity" sounds more like it—in all aspects of his life, from his failed business dealings ripping off tax payers and dodging tax collectors alike, to his unknown relationships with Russian oligarchs and obvious admiration of Putin, to his denigration of immigrants, to his demands to bring work back to American laborers while having his own brands manufactured in Mexico and China.
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For 30+ years Republicans have positioned themselves as the party of "family values." It was all a lie.
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Let's be clear: Trump has displayed swinish behavior all his like. The exact nature of this behavior and the words he used - and uses - are not deplorable, but disgusting. He doesn't deserve a single vote in this election. However, the Republican primary voters knew about him and the American electorate continue to offer him support, so there may be other issues that are on the table.
The NYT Editorial Board likes to appear to be on the side of the angels, even if it means playing all the angles. Bill Clinton had SEX with a 20 yer-old intern in the White House, but the Democrats called for a "wall of separation" between his personal and public life (see MoveOn, etc.). Moreover, the great feminist, Ms. Rodham, openly abused this young woman and other victims of her husband's predatory behavior. As she noted in the leaked speeches to Wall Street movers and shakers, one needs both public and private positions.
It is also clear now that the Democratic party nominee is not telling the truth about her volte face concerning the proposed TPP, and the party's platform on Glass-Steagal is wishy-washy compared to that of the Republican Party, which call for its reinstatement. Can anyone believe a word she says about anything? Can she be trusted with the office of POTUS?
The major parties have given the American people the choice of two broken reeds on which to lean, trying to decide which is less broken is a "mug's game." Voting for a third party candidate is an honest choice!
The NYT Editorial Board likes to appear to be on the side of the angels, even if it means playing all the angles. Bill Clinton had SEX with a 20 yer-old intern in the White House, but the Democrats called for a "wall of separation" between his personal and public life (see MoveOn, etc.). Moreover, the great feminist, Ms. Rodham, openly abused this young woman and other victims of her husband's predatory behavior. As she noted in the leaked speeches to Wall Street movers and shakers, one needs both public and private positions.
It is also clear now that the Democratic party nominee is not telling the truth about her volte face concerning the proposed TPP, and the party's platform on Glass-Steagal is wishy-washy compared to that of the Republican Party, which call for its reinstatement. Can anyone believe a word she says about anything? Can she be trusted with the office of POTUS?
The major parties have given the American people the choice of two broken reeds on which to lean, trying to decide which is less broken is a "mug's game." Voting for a third party candidate is an honest choice!
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The GOP has been in the See No Evil, Hear No Evil mode for a year now. Too bad they couldn't make sure Trump Spoke No Evil.
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Cathargo delenda est. Next election vote against every Republican, for every office, at every level. Be patriotic, save the country.
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Hopefully this may mean the destruction of the repulsive Republican Party and the rise of "real" conservative party not dominated by creeps Trump or by theocrats.
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Sleaze--exactly right.
Oh how I will miss the Obamas. A truly class act, in every way. If the right wing had not trashed them at every occasion--think of the true greatness they could have accomplished.
Oh how I will miss the Obamas. A truly class act, in every way. If the right wing had not trashed them at every occasion--think of the true greatness they could have accomplished.
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We are witnessing the first ever political supernova... The brilliant inevitable orange implosion that occurs when the ego becomes so large that it collapses in on itself
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This is about one issue: a Presidential candidate condoning sexual assault on women under the most egregious terms.
Donald Trump must stand by his own character.
Donald Trump must stand by his own character.
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I will vote for Hillary. But geeze--some proportion here! This is vulgar boytalk on a bus from over a decade ago. Why is this the watershed and not the impossible, exorbitant, racist wall-building? or the recent racist resurrection of the guilt of the non-guilty Central Park Five? or the sympatico collaboration with Putin? or the promise to criminalize legal abortion? or--what should be the bottom line for anyone still undecided, the next three to four Supreme Court appointments? If you want to tag vulgar sexists or sexual adventurers as unfit for the presidency, say for the last 100 years or so, perhaps only Obama and Wilson (did I leave anyone out?), memorably faithful husbands would qualify. i know that Trump has made the National Inquirer equivalent to a campaign platform, but must the media, including the formerly respectable NYT, play along?
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The words of Trump are despicable, boorish, and outlandish even by the standards of a sixth grade boys locker room. However his words pale in comparison to the sexual assaults, victimization, and perjury committed against vulnerable women by the Clintons. And before anyone asks what Bill has to do with anything, remember that Hillary actively participated in the espionage and slander campaigns using language not so dissimilar from Trump.
I have no sympathy for the type of woman Donald is talking about. The kind that values money and power over all else; determined to have a place at the famous man's table at any cost is no one worth getting wrapped around the axle over.
1
"Yet, those kinds of remarks have not deterred the millions of Americans who fervently support him."
Exactly. And that's what makes whole swaths of them a "basket of deplorables," precisely as HRC said.
Exactly. And that's what makes whole swaths of them a "basket of deplorables," precisely as HRC said.
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I am an elderly woman who has known groping and bullying male behavior for many years. Like most women, I've tolerated it. Sometimes by necessity, because I needed the job...or the husband to feed the children and myself. Now I see this differently. I would suggest to any young woman friend or family to avoid the company of any male who would vote or "proudly support" Mr. Trump. Sad. Scary. Sorry for our America to experience such nastiness.
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Trump only apologized because he was pushed to the wall by his inner circle. Then he politicized it all. So, where are his apologies to the Mexicans, to the Khans, to all other women he has demeaned, to the disabled etc. etc? He is not a changed man, he will always be who he is a narcissistic con man
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In response to this latest outrage, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says that "Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified."
If I've learned anything in my 58 years as a man, it's that women aren't asking for reverence or champions. What I hear from women of all ages, time and time again, is that they want respect and partnership.
Even after this, the GOP leadership can't get it right.
If I've learned anything in my 58 years as a man, it's that women aren't asking for reverence or champions. What I hear from women of all ages, time and time again, is that they want respect and partnership.
Even after this, the GOP leadership can't get it right.
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We must not elect a man like this, period. It's not about party, or position, but the person. The highest office in the land is not a TV show, or for self aggrandizement.
1
The Grand Old Pirates Frankenstein monster is well and truly amongst
the villagers now. My sense of it is that many of even his most die hard supporters will simply stay home. Hope so.
the villagers now. My sense of it is that many of even his most die hard supporters will simply stay home. Hope so.
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You cannot defend the indefensible. But if, in fact, actions speak louder than words, then the Clintons' actions are a million times worse than Trump's words.
Bill is a sexual predator. Hillary is a criminal. They are both serial-grifters who have sold America to the highest bidder, for cash.
That's much much worse.
Bill is a sexual predator. Hillary is a criminal. They are both serial-grifters who have sold America to the highest bidder, for cash.
That's much much worse.
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So this is what it takes? At long last, this? After months of outright racism against Mexicans, blacks and Muslims, after courting the so-called alt-right neo-Nazi element, after refusing to be honest ever about anything, after playing footsie with Putin and asking the Russians to hack the election (which they apparently have tried to do) -- this is what it takes? Of course, Trump is sleazy and sexist, in every possible way. He always has been. It is not remotely surprising that he's a groper, or that he has these skeazy and outdated attitudes about women. He is in no way qualified to be president. But this video clip from 2005 is what it takes for the nation to wake up and for Republicans to revoke their endorsements? They should be ashamed. And Republican evangelicals should be the most ashamed.
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At first I laughed at him. I thought his comments had a wring if truth to them and that he was shaking up an ossified political system.
Then it came out he was Putin's stooge (knowingly or otherwise) and I stopped thinking he was funny.
And now there's this. His comments have hit me, a white middle aged man, with a visceral force that I feel compelled to call him out to a Hamilton style duel on behalf of American women.
Then it came out he was Putin's stooge (knowingly or otherwise) and I stopped thinking he was funny.
And now there's this. His comments have hit me, a white middle aged man, with a visceral force that I feel compelled to call him out to a Hamilton style duel on behalf of American women.
1
When will this train wreck end? Trump is custom made to sell papers and TV airtime. But he is so vulgar, so revolting. And even now the GOP is not sure he should not be president. This is a very sad commentary on the once-proud "party of Lincoln." This is not the old Rockefeller Republican manner which Trump is exhibiting. This is street corner pejorative. And this is the best the GOP could field. Someone please tell me this is a comedy show we are watching.
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The Republican Party has, for a long time, been a manly man's club.
Loves guns. Opposes taxes that might provide women and children with daycare and better schools. Favors competition (law of the jungle) over cooperation. Fights organizations that try to provide reliable contraception and safe abortions to women.
Why does Donald Trump surprise anybody? He's a guy's guy, like McConnell and Ryan, and like the conservative columnists for the Times who really can't quite believe that women, these days, are allowed to vote ... and they don't register their preferences on cute little pink ballots (which are counted as half the value of men's).
The GOP got what it bought.
Loves guns. Opposes taxes that might provide women and children with daycare and better schools. Favors competition (law of the jungle) over cooperation. Fights organizations that try to provide reliable contraception and safe abortions to women.
Why does Donald Trump surprise anybody? He's a guy's guy, like McConnell and Ryan, and like the conservative columnists for the Times who really can't quite believe that women, these days, are allowed to vote ... and they don't register their preferences on cute little pink ballots (which are counted as half the value of men's).
The GOP got what it bought.
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Trump has continued to say outrageous things and once even said he could shoot someone in Times Square and people would still vote for him. Maybe his latest outrageous statement on his ability to grope women and get away with it has finally crossed a line even for Trump and people will no longer vote for him. Trump may be the first presidential candidate to lose not because the people did not like his position on the issues but because they did not like his personality.
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The real enablers of Trump's sexual and other indecent comments and behavior are Republican leaders and candidates who protest their disgust but preserve their support of Trump. All of them claim to be disgusted or sickened, and to find the comment inexcusable--and then recover quickly and move on. They hope that the rest of us will do the same, as if this film clip was just an unparalleled lapse. For the "deplorables" like Mitchell and Ryan, and now the loudly self-proclaiming Christian Mr. Pence and the loudly moralist Ralph Reed, PR statements suffice to gloss over the revelations of their candidates depravity.
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Trump represents the party in control of the Senate, The House, the great majority of State Governorships and Legislatures, and until recently, the SCOTUS. It appears that, aside from those who read and respond to articles in the NYT, this is who we have become. Pretty scary and sad. State gerrymandering must be eliminated, else there will be little hope for change even after the next census.
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I really was not surprised at yesterday's comments by Trump. The fact that so many people plan to vote for him, surprises me. But it looks like they are so dazzled by the fact that he is a celebrity and a "billionaire". They think that with him in the White House they too can be a star and a "billionaire". Not. They allow themselves to wallow in the slime with him.
They should be ashamed of themselves to even think of voting for such a mean, self-centered, ignorant man. And he's still talking about the Central Park 5. A group of teenagers who were not guilty of a crime they were sent to jail for. Trump kept calling for the death penalty for them while they were going thru their trial. They served their time, and it was discovered later that another rapist and murderer had actually committed that crime. It was proved by his DNA and a confession.
His problem is that he gets onto an issue and can't let go of it. He doesn't read about the facts, he makes assumptions. Do you want to elect a man who jumps to conclusions and once he is proved wrong, continues to talk about it because he can't be wrong? Heaven help if is proved wrong. He has a temperament problem; its called he never grew up.
They should be ashamed of themselves to even think of voting for such a mean, self-centered, ignorant man. And he's still talking about the Central Park 5. A group of teenagers who were not guilty of a crime they were sent to jail for. Trump kept calling for the death penalty for them while they were going thru their trial. They served their time, and it was discovered later that another rapist and murderer had actually committed that crime. It was proved by his DNA and a confession.
His problem is that he gets onto an issue and can't let go of it. He doesn't read about the facts, he makes assumptions. Do you want to elect a man who jumps to conclusions and once he is proved wrong, continues to talk about it because he can't be wrong? Heaven help if is proved wrong. He has a temperament problem; its called he never grew up.
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I'm curious as to why people seem to find this more shocking than his mocking of a reporter with a disability or the disrespect Trump showed to the Khan family. Women of a certain age have all experienced men coming on to them in this way, so-called 'nice men,' both beautiful women and more ordinary looking ones - preachers and other other church leaders, bankers, doctors, all stripes up and down class lines. Those lewd acts typically don't make it into the public domain. It's interesting to me how sexual misbehavior is more upsetting in our society than almost any other type. Does anyone still believe that at least 2/3 or so of the men who voted to impeach Bill Clinton weren't guilty of the same things, on some level, that Bill had done? Trump has already proven himself to be a boorish schoolyard bully. I'm coming to believe that his supporters stick with him for just that reason. Will this deter them? I would love to see it happen, but I doubt seriously that it will -
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Years ago I found myself in an elevator at the plaza, along with trump and trump alone. Had he groped me, he would have emerged from that elevator missing one of his teeny tiny hands along with his teeny tiny make appendage.
The apology is not owed to us, but to the women whom he abused. So far he's said that if there is a woman who objected to having him grab her vagina, IF there is such a person, then he apologizes to her. But since he imagines there are young attractive women who enjoyed an old man grabbing their vaginas, he sees no reason to go overboard and apologize to them. He assumes that having one's vagina grabbed by him is fun for the women. He is in desperate need of a conversation with his wife and daughters.
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Whatever happened to the republican party? A couple of decades ago, all they wanted was to keep the rich from paying any taxes and a return to slavery, but now that they have achieved that in practical terms, as evidenced by Donald Trump very likely not paying any income tax, they talk openly about being able to assault women sexually, forbidding them from making decisions over their bodies, and that it is ok to stiff your employees because you are not "satisfied" with their work. I miss the days when they were just greedy.
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True supporters won't care. The question is the undecideds. But if they are undecided until now, I'm not sure what criteria they are using to begin with.
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Look at how President Obama has championed his daughters in the past 8 years and been a superb role model for all responsible fathers. Compare him to what's happening now with Trump. I hope every parent has a serious talk with their daughters (no matter what age) and points at Trump as the lowest of the low-to be shunned and avoided. Yech. We all need to take a shower to rid ourselves of this slime.
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Lets just all lay low (including Hillary) and let the election be a landslide. The public has all the information they need and Trump cannot win. No need to debase ourselves by arguing with the monster Trump.
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Trump certainly has a whole lot of class. It's just very, very low. Bringing up Bill Clinton doesn't help, he's not running for office. Besides, Republicans impeached Clinton for consensual sex with an adult. Trump is discussing unwanted sexual assault, commonly known as rape.
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Almost as disgusting as Trump's behaviour are Mike Pence's excuses and continued unwavering support for Trump. This supposed devout Christian is the biggest hypocrite among the many Republicans who know that Trump is a pig but don't have the courage to put decency before party loyalty. Pence is tainted and his behaviour needs to be made a big issue in this election.
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The entertainment value of watching the Republican pundits try to squirm out of this one is in the stratosphere. Thanks, Donald.
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Millions of people are committed to voting for Trump regardless of what disgusting things he says and does. These voters are committed to Trump because Trump is committed to abolishing abortion, slashing federal government functions and taxes and restoring pre-Obama white supremacy. If Trump wins, America will have no greater moral legitimacy than Russia, China or North Korea.
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No longer shocking, Trump's escapades in boorishness and misogyny, as further documented in last evening's video, focuses less on him than the people who prop him up.
Paul Ryan won't appear with Trump today - so what? He still has not repudiated this man, this reprehensible gargoyle. Ryan, McConnell, McCain, Priebus, those who permitted this debacle to unfold, have yet to unendorse and step away from the car-wreck called Trump.
DJT is an American humiliation - not because he can win the Presidency, but merely because he was nominated, permitted to run by the mealy-mouthed, inept, and cowering GOP leadership.
The fecklessness of the Republican "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" (to borrow from Jimmy Breslin), has exposed a potential ruinous pathway for others to follow in undermining and controlling our democracy. They, not Trump have failed us...and it is time to repay their deceit by voting out down-ticket Republican candidates next month. Perhaps, while they circle their wagons defensively, the country can finally move forward and enact laws and take actions that correct our needs - infrastructure, reimbursed college and trade education with service in our military, education, and state-run projects, educating the underclass and bringing them forward towards successful independence, to name a few.
There is a lot that can be done after the implosion of the GOP. While they lick their wounds, the rest of the country must take the opportunity to move forward.
Paul Ryan won't appear with Trump today - so what? He still has not repudiated this man, this reprehensible gargoyle. Ryan, McConnell, McCain, Priebus, those who permitted this debacle to unfold, have yet to unendorse and step away from the car-wreck called Trump.
DJT is an American humiliation - not because he can win the Presidency, but merely because he was nominated, permitted to run by the mealy-mouthed, inept, and cowering GOP leadership.
The fecklessness of the Republican "Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" (to borrow from Jimmy Breslin), has exposed a potential ruinous pathway for others to follow in undermining and controlling our democracy. They, not Trump have failed us...and it is time to repay their deceit by voting out down-ticket Republican candidates next month. Perhaps, while they circle their wagons defensively, the country can finally move forward and enact laws and take actions that correct our needs - infrastructure, reimbursed college and trade education with service in our military, education, and state-run projects, educating the underclass and bringing them forward towards successful independence, to name a few.
There is a lot that can be done after the implosion of the GOP. While they lick their wounds, the rest of the country must take the opportunity to move forward.
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God works in mysterious ways.
How fitting that Trump should find himself debating a the first woman candidate for President, and in front of a Town Hall representing a cross section of people he has spent his whole career abusing.
How fitting that Trump should find himself debating a the first woman candidate for President, and in front of a Town Hall representing a cross section of people he has spent his whole career abusing.
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From the very beginning of Herr Drumpf's candidacy it was clear that he ran not for Commander-in-Chief but for Vulgarian-in-Chief.
He boasted in one of the early debates among over a dozen also running Republican, and I am paraphrasing: "Look at these great fingers, they are big, and I can assure you nothing is wrong in the other department as well".
He used the f-word, and other vocabulary taboo in polite society.
With the release of these tapes, he clearly showed that he is the most famous Pig-in-Chief ever so seek the highest office of the land.
If his non-apology again blaming both the Clintons for being far, far worse, insisting that he is a 'new' man at age 70 because of his travails through a suffering nation, does not sink his poll numbers to rock bottom, I fear for my adopted country.
The bar was already lowered too much for this nouveaux riche know-nothing vulgarian, and it is disturbing that far too many citizens of this country consider crudeness and vulgar language as supposedly 'speaking from the heart' in non-PC manner.
He boasted in one of the early debates among over a dozen also running Republican, and I am paraphrasing: "Look at these great fingers, they are big, and I can assure you nothing is wrong in the other department as well".
He used the f-word, and other vocabulary taboo in polite society.
With the release of these tapes, he clearly showed that he is the most famous Pig-in-Chief ever so seek the highest office of the land.
If his non-apology again blaming both the Clintons for being far, far worse, insisting that he is a 'new' man at age 70 because of his travails through a suffering nation, does not sink his poll numbers to rock bottom, I fear for my adopted country.
The bar was already lowered too much for this nouveaux riche know-nothing vulgarian, and it is disturbing that far too many citizens of this country consider crudeness and vulgar language as supposedly 'speaking from the heart' in non-PC manner.
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Why go back in time to look for gotchas in a man who has shown his base, hostile, bigoted, misogynistic nature over and over in this campaign. He was a barbaric human being back then. He is an unthinkably crude and dangerous candidate now. After tomorrow night's debate, he will probably have officially done himself in. But we can still count on the Americans who supported him to be there. What else is this uninformed, racist, cult of celebrity constituency capable of? That's what I am concerned about.
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Come on, folks. Is anyone really surprised by this talk, coming as it does from such an entitled man? He was about 59 when this was recorded, which makes him the prototypical dirty old man. He hasn't changed and won't change; this is the real man. Women have put with it because the power has been on his side.
Some of the comments indicate that such talk is common among men; maybe so, in some circle. But acting on the comments, groping women, is not common. In fact, it is assault and therefore illegal.
Some of the comments indicate that such talk is common among men; maybe so, in some circle. But acting on the comments, groping women, is not common. In fact, it is assault and therefore illegal.
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When he was a mere lad of 59 Trump boasted of pushing himself sexually on unwilling women. When he was a now-mature 70 he acknowledged his words may have offended but he did not show remorse or contrition for them or for his bad deeds. This is no man fit to be president. This is a middle-schooler who should be expelled.
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Trump does have some weird talent. The more he steals, cheats, lies, violates and threatens - the more banks line up to give him money. Television networks pay him for doing shows, people flock to him to do business and women actually "date" and/or marry him.
The law never shuts him down he gleefully games the system and calls it genius. His seeming immunity to any repercussions for virtually anything he says or does is unprecedented.
Which makes me wonder - is he human? Or, is he Lucifer himself? This is what the evangelical crowd needs to be looking at.
Break out the Bibles.
The law never shuts him down he gleefully games the system and calls it genius. His seeming immunity to any repercussions for virtually anything he says or does is unprecedented.
Which makes me wonder - is he human? Or, is he Lucifer himself? This is what the evangelical crowd needs to be looking at.
Break out the Bibles.
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Yes, Donald Trump is a horrible horrible human being, but, astonishingly, there is an even bigger problem.
Over 40% of Americans actually like this monster and cannot wait to vote for him. They applaud that he "grabs them by the p***y"
They applaud when he files for bankruptcy and hurts all his small business creditors because "that makes him smart"
They applaud when he insults and denigrates people because of their national origin or religion or skin color because that makes it acceptable for them to do it too.
Long after this election is over I will be left with the realization that over 40% of my fellow Americans really are deplorable.
Over 40% of Americans actually like this monster and cannot wait to vote for him. They applaud that he "grabs them by the p***y"
They applaud when he files for bankruptcy and hurts all his small business creditors because "that makes him smart"
They applaud when he insults and denigrates people because of their national origin or religion or skin color because that makes it acceptable for them to do it too.
Long after this election is over I will be left with the realization that over 40% of my fellow Americans really are deplorable.
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The Republican party must be relegated to sleeping on the metaphorical couch for at least the next four years, so it has time to come to its senses. It certainly shouldn't be sleeping next to the rest of us.
The litmus test for the re-election of incumbent Republicans (McConnell, Ayotte, Ryan, et al) next time they are up is whether they put party before country by continuing to support Trump.
The litmus test for the re-election of incumbent Republicans (McConnell, Ayotte, Ryan, et al) next time they are up is whether they put party before country by continuing to support Trump.
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The thing is, this is not out of character for Trump. It confirms what we already know about him. What would be truly a revelation would be a tape capturing Donald being compassionate, caring, or gracious. He is a man who apparently has no redeeming values to make up for his myriad ugly flaws.
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Really? Why should anyone be surprised by this? Trump has repeatedly shown what sort of person he is. Enough already. However, for HRC to get someone's vote she needs to do more than just harp on why Trump is so unsuitable. She needs to clearly articulate why her policies and plans will result in better lives for the people and make the USA a country to be admired.
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This latest update on Trump's "Presidential" behavior does not surprise me. What it does do is reinforce the reason why I choose not to watch the Today show. Matt Lauer's poor excuse for journalistic integrity during the candidate forum and now Billy Bush's goading Trump on make me have zero respect for the executives at The Today Show who refuse to fire them both.
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Lest we forget, Bill Clinton was publicly held accountable for his actions, which were a sorry distraction from an otherwise intelligent and productive presidency. Time to Trump accountable as well---though I don't think there is other substance to his character to redeem him.
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I love sports and have spent a lot of time in locker rooms and guys who talk like this are regarded as losers. It might come as a surprise to most women readers but wholesome healthy men these days with good judgement treat women with respect and the locker room talk these days amongst those men is about love and commitment.
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Between Trump's vulgar audio tape and the just released parts of Clinton's duplicitous Wall Street speach I honestly think neither of these two should be in the White House. They both make me nauseous. America really needs and deserves an honest intelligent person possessing the highest moral character. Obama was a good start in what I hoped would be a trend. I hope he doesnt turn out to have been an outlier.
Why is anyone surprised at these revelations? The comments by him are typical of his type, as anyone who served in the military and has heard that language is well aware. It was just a matter of time.
I wouldn't introduce this clod to anyone for whom I had the least respect.
And by the way, this sort of animal would never have been nominated in the days of Political Bosses, real conventions, and the "smoke filled room". The primary system, starting with George McGovern, has become a disaster for our nation.
I wouldn't introduce this clod to anyone for whom I had the least respect.
And by the way, this sort of animal would never have been nominated in the days of Political Bosses, real conventions, and the "smoke filled room". The primary system, starting with George McGovern, has become a disaster for our nation.
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Donald Trump IS the Republican Party. He reflects their values. No amont of trolling, expediency, rehashing of the innuendo of Roger Ales decade of propoganda can change that.
Trump is so totally unfit for the office the Republicans have nominated him that he will be a footnote and symbol of their self destruction.
Trump is so totally unfit for the office the Republicans have nominated him that he will be a footnote and symbol of their self destruction.
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"But has he gone too far, at last?"
I thought he went too far when he attacked the parents of our Muslim soldier who gave his life for his country.
I thought he went too far when he attacked a federal judge of Latino heritage.
I thought he went too far when he mocked a disabled person.
I thought he went too far when he boasted about his business acumen, and then it turned out he had lost nearly $1 billion, had a string of bankruptcies, and stiffed his workers and contractors.
I thought he went too far when he lied about his charitable donations.
I thought he went too far when he defrauded students at Trump University.
I thought he went too far when he advocated punishing women for having abortions.
I thought he went too far when he bribed attorneys general not to look into his business dealings.
I thought he went too far when he hired undeniable racists as his top-level campaign staff.
I thought he went too far when he insisted he would ban Muslims from entering the country.
I thought he went to far when he said he would deport 11 million undocumented individuals.
I thought he went too far when he called Mexicans "rapists".
I thought he went too far when he praised Putin and Saddam Hussein as "strong leaders".
I thought he went too far when he called climate change a hoax.
I thought he went too far when he approved of torture.
I thought he went too far by encouraging gun owners to kill HRC.
Sigh. I'm halfway through my list, but have reached 1500 words.
I thought he went too far when he attacked the parents of our Muslim soldier who gave his life for his country.
I thought he went too far when he attacked a federal judge of Latino heritage.
I thought he went too far when he mocked a disabled person.
I thought he went too far when he boasted about his business acumen, and then it turned out he had lost nearly $1 billion, had a string of bankruptcies, and stiffed his workers and contractors.
I thought he went too far when he lied about his charitable donations.
I thought he went too far when he defrauded students at Trump University.
I thought he went too far when he advocated punishing women for having abortions.
I thought he went too far when he bribed attorneys general not to look into his business dealings.
I thought he went too far when he hired undeniable racists as his top-level campaign staff.
I thought he went too far when he insisted he would ban Muslims from entering the country.
I thought he went to far when he said he would deport 11 million undocumented individuals.
I thought he went too far when he called Mexicans "rapists".
I thought he went too far when he praised Putin and Saddam Hussein as "strong leaders".
I thought he went too far when he called climate change a hoax.
I thought he went too far when he approved of torture.
I thought he went too far by encouraging gun owners to kill HRC.
Sigh. I'm halfway through my list, but have reached 1500 words.
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Thanks to the Republican nominee for the Presidency of the United States, I have just had a conversation about rape culture with my 7 year old son and about how he must never treat women like this nor stand by while others do the same.
This is America in 2016. We were supposed to have been better than this.
This is America in 2016. We were supposed to have been better than this.
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Mr. Trumps behavior is inexcusable. I do not intend to listen to him or his surrogates "answering" questions about it or making excuses for it. Fortunately my TV remote control has a mute button.
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Locker rooms were a common venue when I was growing up. Yes, some men do talk as Mr. Trump did with some frequency. Sometimes what they are saying is fantasy or exaggeration, sometimes it's more or less the truth.
What I'd like to know is where has this recording been for the past 20 months since Mr. Trump announced his campaign with it's continuing stream of outrageous statements? Why is this audio emerging only now? Evidently, it's authentic and it's clearly outrageous. Whoever has had it since 2005 surely has known it's a bombshell all along. So what's the story behind the story of where this audio came from and why it has been so long concealed?
What I'd like to know is where has this recording been for the past 20 months since Mr. Trump announced his campaign with it's continuing stream of outrageous statements? Why is this audio emerging only now? Evidently, it's authentic and it's clearly outrageous. Whoever has had it since 2005 surely has known it's a bombshell all along. So what's the story behind the story of where this audio came from and why it has been so long concealed?
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"I apologize if anyone was offended". These words burned through to a personal memory so gut wrenching that I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
When my son was 10 years old he was bullied severely by a group of fifth grade thugs. They pushed him to the ground, rolled him down a hill filled with poison ivy and grabbed him by his ankles stuffing him head=first into a garbage can. This took place at a local summer camp. When he came home that day covered with poison ivy rashes we called the police. We called the camp , too. My little boy, so exuberant and loving was a bundle of nerves.
No one was prosecuted and because they were minors they were told to write letters of apology to my son.
When they arrived they had one thing in common. Each one stated that they apologized for "what happened to my son and IF he was hurt they were sorry". My son read these non-apologies, obviously guided by consulted attorneys and tossed them in the air. He turned and said to me,"These are garbage, ma."
So are the words that have spewed from Donald Trump. The insults and the "apology". The conditional apology. Disgusting.
When my son was 10 years old he was bullied severely by a group of fifth grade thugs. They pushed him to the ground, rolled him down a hill filled with poison ivy and grabbed him by his ankles stuffing him head=first into a garbage can. This took place at a local summer camp. When he came home that day covered with poison ivy rashes we called the police. We called the camp , too. My little boy, so exuberant and loving was a bundle of nerves.
No one was prosecuted and because they were minors they were told to write letters of apology to my son.
When they arrived they had one thing in common. Each one stated that they apologized for "what happened to my son and IF he was hurt they were sorry". My son read these non-apologies, obviously guided by consulted attorneys and tossed them in the air. He turned and said to me,"These are garbage, ma."
So are the words that have spewed from Donald Trump. The insults and the "apology". The conditional apology. Disgusting.
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The refrain from the latest Trump story is that every guy engages in "locker room" chat. Two things: I can attest to locker room chat worded by none other but me, however it was just that, "locker room" chat said close to 50 years ago when I hung up my football cleats and left the locker room and high school behind. Secondly, very few of us run for the US presidency and those that make it are held to a higher standard. Coupled with the numerous derogatory statements, the latest is the end. As an Independent, I'll be sitting on my hands this election.
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Here's the deal: Donald Trump only regrets getting caught. Talk is cheap and we all say and think things we know are wrong. Mr. Trump has not apologized for his deeds, or to the women he took advantage and possibly assaulted. There is no apology given for a life philosophy of taking what ever you can get by hook or crook. That attitude is repulsive to me and shows moral corruption and sickness.
At one time I believed that America stood for justice and equal opportunity, to bring out the best in our nature. Mr Trump shows the extreme arrogance of a privileged teenage brat with no respect for anyone else. His vision is quite different: racism, women are objects to control, and the rich should pay no taxes. It makes me very sad that anyone would support him as qualified to be the POTUS. Shame on the Republican Party!
At one time I believed that America stood for justice and equal opportunity, to bring out the best in our nature. Mr Trump shows the extreme arrogance of a privileged teenage brat with no respect for anyone else. His vision is quite different: racism, women are objects to control, and the rich should pay no taxes. It makes me very sad that anyone would support him as qualified to be the POTUS. Shame on the Republican Party!
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The saddest aspect of this outrage and all the others prior to this, is that so many Americas continue to support Trump. I know the critical acumen of Americans has been neglected by our education systme, but how on earth have some many people become brain dead?
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I don't think this is going to disgust the millennials as much as they are already disgusted and disappointed in both candidates. The wikileaks emails released yesterday confirm all the doubts they had all along: her Goldman Sachs speeches, the campaign's "The tone and language of the excerpts clash with the fiery liberal approach she used later in her bitter primary battle with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and could have undermined her candidacy had it become public."
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Do we have such short memories that we forgot Republican Missouri congressman Todd Akin who, while running for Senate in 2012, made that ridiculous "legitimate rape" comment in defending against abortion for any reason. Those comments were inexcusable and he was correctly and universally told to, not only drop out of the Senate race but resign his seat in Congress. Fast forward to 2016 and there is no question that the accumulation of all of Trump's disgusting comments and acts make Akin's words pale in comparison.
Almost everyone agrees Trump is a clown so is anyone really that surprised by these latest revelations? The real shameful actors in all this are Ryan, McCain, McConnell, Ayotte and the rest of the Republican leadership who have continue to support this national embarrassment. Shame on them all.
Almost everyone agrees Trump is a clown so is anyone really that surprised by these latest revelations? The real shameful actors in all this are Ryan, McCain, McConnell, Ayotte and the rest of the Republican leadership who have continue to support this national embarrassment. Shame on them all.
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What concerns me is that Trump would only appoint women who meet his physical requirements rather than on their ability. He has a long history to back this up and it has no place in running the world's leading democracy. He also has a history of appointing only "yes" men and women which only reinforce his megalomania.
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In classic Trump style, his late night video "apology" his standard pivot is the "but Mommy" defense. You know, where confronted with a wrong doing the kid tried to divert the confrontation with a sibling or friend's offense. And it is time for the public and media to firmly stop the diversion. "That is not the question, that is not what we are talking about now." And cut off the microphones of the surrogates who try to use the deflection defense.
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Common sense would say that the Republican Party should unanimously repudiate that monster leading their party. But they probably won't do that. They need Trump's "basket of deplorables", the pool of lesser educated, disgruntled, suspicious and usually bigoted white voters who have a proven track record of voting against their own self-interests. Without these voters the GOP would have difficulty foisting their typically 1-percent-centric policies on the American people. So as unspeakably horrible as Trump is, the GOP needs the people attracted to him. I'm sure they just wish Trump hadn't come along to lure them all out into the light of day.
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Senator Ryan's response is interesting. "Women are to be championed and revered". By the dominant male on the white charger of course. He clearly has no more concept of actual equality between men and women than does Trump.
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DT is the cartoon personification of the Wall Street Banks and the Entitled Class in this country: "I am all-powerful; I can do whatever I want with impunity; No one will dare incur my displeasure or I will squash them like a bug; I will never have to pay for my crimes like the commoners."
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following the examples of Colombia, Great Britain, Thailand, and others, perhaps we should hold a plebiscite on who should be our next president. what? what do you mean that's exactly what we are doing? is that really wise?
democracy's success fundamentally relies on intellect and education in the masses, otherwise how will they collectively make a good decision? sadly, it appears the average man is just too stupid to be allowed to vote, and the above average man shirks his voting responsibility because he can't be bothered. and, finally, it appears the average woman is indeed smarter than the average man.
if this particular pig of a man wins this election, my wife and i will renounce our u.s. citizenship and move to New Zealand... or something.
democracy's success fundamentally relies on intellect and education in the masses, otherwise how will they collectively make a good decision? sadly, it appears the average man is just too stupid to be allowed to vote, and the above average man shirks his voting responsibility because he can't be bothered. and, finally, it appears the average woman is indeed smarter than the average man.
if this particular pig of a man wins this election, my wife and i will renounce our u.s. citizenship and move to New Zealand... or something.
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I would guess that a student of Psychology 101 would be able to diagnose Trump's demeanor during his "apology" as nothing more than a spoiled kid's insincere "I'll never do it again, so can I now go out and play president of the world"? If there are any self-respecting Republicans left like "Little Marco" and non-hero McCain who are willing to say they may not vote for Clinton but are sure as hell not voting for a disgusting misogynist who gropes woman and objectifies his daughter.
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Mr. Trump is a vulgar illusion of "success" who has managed to dupe a significant portion of the U.S. into believing he would be an acceptable president. He is a crude fraud.
His obvious mental imbalances and other disqualifications are really too many to list. They are right there for anyone to see.
Republican leaders who still endorse this man, or who do not specifically reject him are craven. Shameless.
His obvious mental imbalances and other disqualifications are really too many to list. They are right there for anyone to see.
Republican leaders who still endorse this man, or who do not specifically reject him are craven. Shameless.
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"It would be hard to argue that the man he was then is not the man he is now."
Surely, it would be hard to argue that he is a "man" at all. Certainly not a man whose acquaintance I would ever wish to make, or have thrust upon me.
And even more certainly, not a mensch.
Surely, it would be hard to argue that he is a "man" at all. Certainly not a man whose acquaintance I would ever wish to make, or have thrust upon me.
And even more certainly, not a mensch.
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@Dee
RE "The comments were very crude, even for my tastes, but this was a private conversation between guys. Come on! I hate Donald Trump, but releasing this tape is a low blow:"
Really? Were the private Nixon tapes a low blow? They revealed a man clearly unfit for the presidency as do these Trump tapes.
RE "The comments were very crude, even for my tastes, but this was a private conversation between guys. Come on! I hate Donald Trump, but releasing this tape is a low blow:"
Really? Were the private Nixon tapes a low blow? They revealed a man clearly unfit for the presidency as do these Trump tapes.
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Trump should resign for the good of the country.
I believe any attempt to oust him would precipitate a constitutional crisis if he challenges.
I read recently that when FDR ran for his
4th term as President those who knew the
frailty of his health planned to appoint
Truman as the POTUS nominee 'by edict'
if FDR had died during the campaign.
Pence is too extreme to win but at least the
GOP could exit this debacle with some
modicum of civility
I believe any attempt to oust him would precipitate a constitutional crisis if he challenges.
I read recently that when FDR ran for his
4th term as President those who knew the
frailty of his health planned to appoint
Truman as the POTUS nominee 'by edict'
if FDR had died during the campaign.
Pence is too extreme to win but at least the
GOP could exit this debacle with some
modicum of civility
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Even after reading extensively this last year about Trump, I was still shocked to view that video. Real men I have known don't treat or talk about women like this. Trump is the worst example of a man with power over women from 50 years ago who inspired women to demand harassment laws to protect us. I wonder how many women he has abused in his employ who signed agreements upon employment preventing them from speaking about what may of happened within this decade.
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I never Tweet but I like to read the Tweets on trending hashtags, such as those about the topic we are now discussing. And what's incredible is that his supporters continue to defend him - women included (one of the most prolific Tweeters being a woman who calls herself Deplorable in Pink). Of course they do it by bringing up Bill Clinton, conveniently forgetting that he is not running...because, in their mind, it's still 1950 and women are just an extension of their husbands. It's very scary and very sad.
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Got to wonder how much Bill Clinton’s sexploits in the Oval Office in the 1990s and his wife Hilary’s defence of him gave the Donald the notion that he had licence to engage in such lewd discourse with a member of the Bush family.
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I used to just want Trump to go away. Now I also want him to suffer the permanent, total destruction of his brand and finances - one that he can't bounce back from like his other bankruptcies. The value of his name must certainly be in free-fall, especially overseas, and I hope a tsunami of law suits is heading his way as developers who licensed his name start feeling the pain he's unleashed.
This country needs a big time-out to think about how we came to a point where someone of his character was so rewarded for so long. Our healing can only begin when he is shown to have destroyed himself and he's humiliated and exiled from culture.
This country needs a big time-out to think about how we came to a point where someone of his character was so rewarded for so long. Our healing can only begin when he is shown to have destroyed himself and he's humiliated and exiled from culture.
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People say things in private that are not meant to be made public. Yes is crude but talking about someone who is attractive is not uncommon, for that donald gets a pass. (Lest be honest, in his own brain which cease to develop past the age of 7, he believes he has spent a whole lifetime reaching out to women)
However where he must be held accountable is his bragging to strangers that he can molest women because of who he is. The collective body of evidence paints a picture of money, privilege, arrogance, and hubris. Everything he is running against in Washington.
He will not rain on that parade but reign over it like a mythical towering wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Can the religious base really believe he has taken the "baby steps" towards redemption to be their standard bearer? Can Pence with his inside the belt way political speak defend this with the public, his party, his family, his conscious? If he can't he should step down.
But that's OK because their is a more prefect running mate for Trump...
Bill Cosby.
However where he must be held accountable is his bragging to strangers that he can molest women because of who he is. The collective body of evidence paints a picture of money, privilege, arrogance, and hubris. Everything he is running against in Washington.
He will not rain on that parade but reign over it like a mythical towering wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Can the religious base really believe he has taken the "baby steps" towards redemption to be their standard bearer? Can Pence with his inside the belt way political speak defend this with the public, his party, his family, his conscious? If he can't he should step down.
But that's OK because their is a more prefect running mate for Trump...
Bill Cosby.
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Mr. Trump has placed an ad on TV claiming this uncovered ugliness is "nothing more than an attempt to distract from the issues." Why would HRC's team want to distract from the issues. of which she is much more knowledgeable than Mr. Trump. Trump is trying to appear presidential, to appear above the muck, but it's another one of his tricks, and an adolescent one at that. I have to wonder what his childhood must have been like to have never grown out of it in many respects.
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Three words: "battered wife syndrome" could still save Trump. There seems to be no bottom to how low the self-esteem of his supporters among women will go.
And as for the evangelicals: the "Yitzak Rabin Syndrome" seems to apply. As one tweeter has mentioned, they would be happy to have Trump win so long as a "second amendment solution" could insure a Pence presidency.
And as for the evangelicals: the "Yitzak Rabin Syndrome" seems to apply. As one tweeter has mentioned, they would be happy to have Trump win so long as a "second amendment solution" could insure a Pence presidency.
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The fact that Mr. Trump openly bragged about his efforts to have sex with a married woman should make it impossible for the self-described Evangelical crowd to support him. But, as some have known all along, the Christian Evangelical moniker is, for many, a robe of intolerance and a justification for insisting on legislating and adjudicating their social biases and personal prejudices. I will not be surprised to see in the next few days a contrite Mr. Trump with a crowd of bogus preachers announcing his prayerful redemption and their ongoing support for the new man.
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While evidence of lewd acts by Donald Trump mount, they pale in comparison to clear and unequivocal evidence of his incompetence as a decision maker. He is intellectually lazy, has a short attention span, is deeply insecure, and would evaluate everything in the context of his personal gain, not the countries.
As a presidential contender he represents a clear and immediate danger to the country and the world.
As a presidential contender he represents a clear and immediate danger to the country and the world.
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Wonder if this is acceptable genetic behavior for his sons, Not to mention he was almost sixty and married yet spoke as if he was entitled to act in such a repulsive manner. Its clear he has never changed and at age 70 its clear he has no intention of changing. Can this mess get any worse?
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This latest disclosure is more of an indictment of the Republican big wigs than it is of Donald Trump. We all know who Donald Trump is. And they know better than most. And still they try to justify his candidacy. We know Donald. And because of Donald, we now know the Republican party leadership much better. His character was in issue long ago. These latest statements are no surprise. They are consistent with the man we've known all along. Only now, they're a graphic indictment of all those who would foist him upon the world.
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From the Mayo Clinic: "A...sociopath has the capability of inflicting great harm on others because he lacks empathy and often feels superior to those around him. It is not uncommon for these individuals to lie and exploit their family, acquaintances and strangers for their own personal gain.
"While sociopaths are known for using charm and wit to accomplish their goal of manipulation, they can become irritated and agitated rather quickly, explains Mayo Clinic. This abnormality often results in them taking personal risks and acting aggressively toward others."
How many of these boxes do we check now?
"While sociopaths are known for using charm and wit to accomplish their goal of manipulation, they can become irritated and agitated rather quickly, explains Mayo Clinic. This abnormality often results in them taking personal risks and acting aggressively toward others."
How many of these boxes do we check now?
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Over the past months I have wondered who would vote for this vile, tacky, unfit man. After this latest evidence of his horridness I will be interested to chart which houses that sported Trump yard signs will pull them down. It will give us a clear sign of those in our society are willfully deplorable.
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The tale of the tape made me wonder about the kind of people who speak as Trump often does. I remember men who knew a lot of women. Those men never spoke of a woman in derogatory terms. (Well, one might imply a mental aberration in a woman who rejected him; but never made a nasty remark about his own acts or a woman's physical attributes.) On the other hand, the "language" was more likely to be found in those who had no experience of relationships and who seemed to need to prove something. Over to you, Sigmund!
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Trump has been consistent - he has no concept of personal accountability. This is his integrity. It runs throughout all he does and says. A murderer will not lose a vote. A star can assualt women without consequence. Can a quisling for Putin not be treasonous?
Will Pense, McCain, Ryan and the conspiracy of enablers also not be held accountable?
Will Pense, McCain, Ryan and the conspiracy of enablers also not be held accountable?
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He's actually the perfect GOP poster boy. Many of the racist and demeaning statements he says out loud have been spoken privately by GOP men in board rooms and at country clubs for years. The party of old white men has no place for women. Think about it. No female senators or representatives have come forth to denounce him and to say they will not vote for him!
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I tutor kids of all ages, including adolescent girls, who could not be more vulnerable as they struggle with their identities, appearance and confidence. As a New Yorker, I am familiar with this vulgar and insulting side of Donald Trump, which began to show itself early on in the campaign and has only gotten worse. But then there are so many instances where the dark side of his nature has surfaced and it has failed to dent his support, which I find profoundly disturbing. It's one thing for voters to be conned by his persona(s); after all he has been seducing and betraying everyone from investors to workers to consumers for years. What I question is so many GOP politicians have willingly jumped on this runaway train that was always destined to fly over the cliff, win or lose? I'd like to ask each of them, if this guy wanted to marry your daughter, would you say yes or would you be responsible and at least acknowledge the man's character or lack thereof and make your case for her sake?
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I have two teenage daughters. I've used video as the impetus to have a talk with them similar to the talk many parents of young black men have had with them about being cautious of the police. I told them that when they watch this video to remember to be wary of men like the Republican Presidential Nominee, the man who millions of American have chosen to represent their interests and who has the support of many politicians and other influential people.
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If let's say Paul Ryan would have been caught talking like that, then that's news. But Donald Trump? We all heard him say worse things about women. This is the real Donald: a sexist, xenophobe, liar, racist.
But worse than him are the politicians that support him, like Giuliani, who said this:
"This country used to be a wonderful place to live,” the former New York mayor said. “Today, all you see is a hellscape of smoldering ruins.” And he continues: "We have an unemployment rate of forty per cent and a murder rate of fifty per cent,” he said. “We are losing a million jobs a day to China and hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are swarming over our border with Mexico. Those are the facts."
And the Republican Party hold the majority in Congress and is about to get at least 40% of the votes in the Presidential election.
The US is indeed "a wonderful place to live".
But worse than him are the politicians that support him, like Giuliani, who said this:
"This country used to be a wonderful place to live,” the former New York mayor said. “Today, all you see is a hellscape of smoldering ruins.” And he continues: "We have an unemployment rate of forty per cent and a murder rate of fifty per cent,” he said. “We are losing a million jobs a day to China and hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees are swarming over our border with Mexico. Those are the facts."
And the Republican Party hold the majority in Congress and is about to get at least 40% of the votes in the Presidential election.
The US is indeed "a wonderful place to live".
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This is just more confirmation for my opinion against Trump. Unfortunately, I do not think it has much effect on trump supporters or the undecided.
Locker room talk is expected from Donald. The only difference is that he was stupid in allowing this to be filmed. Purely stupid.
Locker room talk is expected from Donald. The only difference is that he was stupid in allowing this to be filmed. Purely stupid.
1
Trump the Unindicted. Entices crowds with guns to threaten a female presidential candidate. Admits to assaulting women. Fraudulently stiffs contractual suppliers of labor. On and on. Why is he not being pursued by the law as any one else would be?
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After trading obscene dope on the actress “thrown in front of the bus”—i.e chosen by her studio to be the official Trump greeter—excited puppy dog and Ryan Lochte fan Billy Bush, beaming like a sycophant, practically orders the woman to “give Mr. Trump a hug.” Anyone looking for insight into the mind of the average white male Trump supporter, look no further. Fervent nationalism, with all the camaraderie of a frat-party gang bang.
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If all of the previous public reprehensible behavior is not enough to dissuade voters, I hope this lewd and lascivious lifestyle demonstrates the white male class privilege system that has allowed the sexist treatment of women ---does finally get attention. Sadly, this is not surprising. All conservative, tea party, Christian Republicans have promulgated this disaster. And many men like Donald Trump act this way every day. No self respecting woman would vote for such a boor. The Republican party allowed this and fell right in line with the pied piper. It is a horrible commentary on the state of our society!
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Donald Trump is a lecherous thief. Undoubtedly this dirty old man has groped many women. We have that on tape for posterity.
But his potty mouth has also stolen time and attention, sucked up an entire election cycle. He has stolen our peace of mind. It's disgusting to have been forced to spend much of the last year paying attention to such human FILTH, simply in order to comment - over and over - with the aim of ridding the White House of it. I feel tarnished by the muck of this man. He has dirtied the country. The planet too is holding its breath.
Once he goes down to defeat, and I hope it is a resounding, humiliating defeat, we must give him the reward he deserves: Media Oblivion.
But his potty mouth has also stolen time and attention, sucked up an entire election cycle. He has stolen our peace of mind. It's disgusting to have been forced to spend much of the last year paying attention to such human FILTH, simply in order to comment - over and over - with the aim of ridding the White House of it. I feel tarnished by the muck of this man. He has dirtied the country. The planet too is holding its breath.
Once he goes down to defeat, and I hope it is a resounding, humiliating defeat, we must give him the reward he deserves: Media Oblivion.
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With such low regard for the welfare and sensibilities of more than half of our population, how can Trump possibly be a good president? Those who are even contemplating casting a vote for him should ask themselves, do I trust this man to do right by my daughters, my sisters, my mother?
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Some commenters are suggesting that Trump should resign from the race. That would mean Pence would get the presidential nod, and needing a VP he'd bring in Paul Ryan. This group of fanatical, antii-Constitution, anti-science Bible thumpers would likely coast to victory next month, given the statically fixed-establishment candidate Clinton. No thanks -- let Trump ride it out, and come what may regarding a Clinton presidency.
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Pence is appearing with Ryan today, in Trumpy's place. I'd say the odds of Pence and Ryan attempting to put themselves forward as an alternative to Trump on the ticket are 30-50 percent.
Pence probably thought he'd be the real president with Trump in the White House anyway. I'm sure he's ecstatic to see the the opportunity to make this "sacrifice" for the county and rise to the top of the ticket. As for Ryan, he'll be happy to take another shot at VP -- if Pence/Ryan lose, Ryan will blame it on Trump and his hopes to become president live for another day.
Pence probably thought he'd be the real president with Trump in the White House anyway. I'm sure he's ecstatic to see the the opportunity to make this "sacrifice" for the county and rise to the top of the ticket. As for Ryan, he'll be happy to take another shot at VP -- if Pence/Ryan lose, Ryan will blame it on Trump and his hopes to become president live for another day.
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Aptly, these filthy remarks about women make certain that a woman will be in the WH. It will be so sweet when the most misogynistic candidate ever becomes the first man in the U.S. to lose a presidential election to a woman!
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Most of us regret what we did and said in years gone by.
We also adopt different and more mature positions as time goes by.
It is my best guess that Donald Trump, if elected President of your great country, would not be guilty of the same indiscretions as President Clinton.
We also adopt different and more mature positions as time goes by.
It is my best guess that Donald Trump, if elected President of your great country, would not be guilty of the same indiscretions as President Clinton.
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All of this information was out there and available on the very day that D.T. rode down the escalator and declared himself a candidate for president. Had the media done its job instead of using Trump to advance its own economic interests he would have been disqualified long ago.
None of it is a shock, a surprise, unexpected. He was given a free ride, hence the results.
None of it is a shock, a surprise, unexpected. He was given a free ride, hence the results.
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I find it interesting that Trump has basically, due to an accident of having a silver spoon in his mouth, get away with absolutely sordid behavior throughout his life. We've learned about his callousness toward people of color, disabled, immigrants, subcontractors, workers brought to work on his properties from overseas, women, Muslims, etc.
Now that he's been exposed as a person that brags about sexually assaulting white women ... he's suddenly crossed a line? This is a man who has had a forty year relationship with people like Roger Stone - who has recently been tweeting vile white nationalist memes or his new bros like Bannon and Ailes with sleazy backgrounds of their own.
This imbroglio says much about America's id ... and none of it is pleasant. Meanwhile, I fully expect the usual spin from the likes of Giuliani, Gingrich, Christie et al. and the unfortunate inability of the press to actually serve as the Fourth Estate instead of being Trump's stenos/enablers.
Now that he's been exposed as a person that brags about sexually assaulting white women ... he's suddenly crossed a line? This is a man who has had a forty year relationship with people like Roger Stone - who has recently been tweeting vile white nationalist memes or his new bros like Bannon and Ailes with sleazy backgrounds of their own.
This imbroglio says much about America's id ... and none of it is pleasant. Meanwhile, I fully expect the usual spin from the likes of Giuliani, Gingrich, Christie et al. and the unfortunate inability of the press to actually serve as the Fourth Estate instead of being Trump's stenos/enablers.
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Imagine what he says in private about other groups he's publicly disparaged or mocked - persons of color, persons with disabilities, any person who he deems a "loser".
We actually all know exactly who Trump is and most of us have encountered men like him. The reassertion of entitled white male power represented in his support is actually the same old thing, just write extra-large in this perfect caricature of the crass, bullying, semi-literate predator that too many men still admire. I'd like to think that he's a freakish throwback. Apparently not entirely.
We actually all know exactly who Trump is and most of us have encountered men like him. The reassertion of entitled white male power represented in his support is actually the same old thing, just write extra-large in this perfect caricature of the crass, bullying, semi-literate predator that too many men still admire. I'd like to think that he's a freakish throwback. Apparently not entirely.
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Verb tense, voice, and syntax all matter. As a former Police Detective who investigated sexual assaults, what is particularly disturbing about this predator's taped remarks is the intimations from constructions like: "[I] Just kiss. I don't wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." These are words of prior experience; the construction implies that he'd been carrying out assaults prior to the bus conversation.
The question is, how do self-respecting, decent women conscience this aberration of a human being? How does someone like Kelly Anne Conway spin this disgusting "banter" into something acceptable, as she pivots to Hillary and Bill? Moreover, how do they do a straight-faced attack on the "way Hillary Clinton attacked the women" with whom Bill carried on? What wife on earth would not be enraged in an emotional backlash at cheaters with her husband?
The Trumpians' posture of defense (Bill Clinton "is much worse") will crumble when actual victims invariably start coming forward. Surrogate pivots will crumble too, like the Wikileaks revelations about Hillary's Wall St. speeches: let's not forget how deeply Trump is indebted to Goldman Sachs for financing (and Russian oligarchs, and the state-owned Bank of China).
The clever trap is set: he's a changed man from 12 years ago? One can safely bet there is more to come, and the new stuff will be closer and closer to 2016.
The question is, how do self-respecting, decent women conscience this aberration of a human being? How does someone like Kelly Anne Conway spin this disgusting "banter" into something acceptable, as she pivots to Hillary and Bill? Moreover, how do they do a straight-faced attack on the "way Hillary Clinton attacked the women" with whom Bill carried on? What wife on earth would not be enraged in an emotional backlash at cheaters with her husband?
The Trumpians' posture of defense (Bill Clinton "is much worse") will crumble when actual victims invariably start coming forward. Surrogate pivots will crumble too, like the Wikileaks revelations about Hillary's Wall St. speeches: let's not forget how deeply Trump is indebted to Goldman Sachs for financing (and Russian oligarchs, and the state-owned Bank of China).
The clever trap is set: he's a changed man from 12 years ago? One can safely bet there is more to come, and the new stuff will be closer and closer to 2016.
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Here comes the avalanche of that opposition research we have all been wondering about.
What's weird is, as far as the Trump campaign's reaction thus far, they seem to think this is the end.
No way. This is the first of many many damaging 'open mike' incidents.
Trump is such a huge egomaniac I think he probably knew the mic was on and didn't think it was a problem, that it could actually enhance his image as the alpha male.
What's weird is, as far as the Trump campaign's reaction thus far, they seem to think this is the end.
No way. This is the first of many many damaging 'open mike' incidents.
Trump is such a huge egomaniac I think he probably knew the mic was on and didn't think it was a problem, that it could actually enhance his image as the alpha male.
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Terrible comments. Not surprising, though, given he has never claimed to be monogamous and has not respected the institution of marriage.
His "heart", though, is not different from Hillary's or any human's...corrupt and in need of redemption IF one still goes by a moral absolute in the nation. Whose "arbitrary" absolute are we using to judge behavior now? Seems we are doing a cut and paste job here.
The "thou shall nots" re. marriage have changes; infanticide (late term abortions) are allowable by law and supported by Hillary and Kaine. Prosecutions are thwarted with 5th amendments being taken right and left, and a moral absolute regarding "truth" has been dispensed with.
Yes, Trump's sins are egregious, but so are Hillary's, and her highly regarded husband in terms of his political skills is not different from Trump.
By the way, for those inclined to talk about gradiations of sin, St. Paul, instead, talked about the sin nature, or that of biological man as represented in Adam. He said he had to be crucified, crossed out, and that deliverance comes through a new and higher nature Christ infuses. These words are for Methodist Hillary Clinton and Presbyterian Donald Trump.
For one to point the finger at the other's sins is the pot calling the kettle black, frankly.
His "heart", though, is not different from Hillary's or any human's...corrupt and in need of redemption IF one still goes by a moral absolute in the nation. Whose "arbitrary" absolute are we using to judge behavior now? Seems we are doing a cut and paste job here.
The "thou shall nots" re. marriage have changes; infanticide (late term abortions) are allowable by law and supported by Hillary and Kaine. Prosecutions are thwarted with 5th amendments being taken right and left, and a moral absolute regarding "truth" has been dispensed with.
Yes, Trump's sins are egregious, but so are Hillary's, and her highly regarded husband in terms of his political skills is not different from Trump.
By the way, for those inclined to talk about gradiations of sin, St. Paul, instead, talked about the sin nature, or that of biological man as represented in Adam. He said he had to be crucified, crossed out, and that deliverance comes through a new and higher nature Christ infuses. These words are for Methodist Hillary Clinton and Presbyterian Donald Trump.
For one to point the finger at the other's sins is the pot calling the kettle black, frankly.
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Let's not lose sight of with all this validation of what Trump has been saying about woman throughout the campaign as misogynist, Trump just doubled down on the guilt of the 5 black men wrongly convicted in the Central Park Five case.
This is disgusting shows that he has some defective wiring in his brain, to continue to perpetuate this false conviction, where at the time he took out a full page ad to advocate for the death penalty for this 5 young men who were ultimately proven falsely convicted and innocent of all charges.
This is disgusting shows that he has some defective wiring in his brain, to continue to perpetuate this false conviction, where at the time he took out a full page ad to advocate for the death penalty for this 5 young men who were ultimately proven falsely convicted and innocent of all charges.
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This is way past party before country. The GOP is being exposed for what it is, united by greed, self interest, and privilege. There is no question as to what Trump is. As far as the rest of the GOP, there is also little debate as to its essence. The only question now is not what you are, but at what price you will accept this behavior. In the interests of self-preservation, the flight from Trump will be swift. Mike Pence's futures should be finished as well.
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Donald Trump's character has never been a secret. Why the sudden revulsion?
From the beginning I have been dumbfounded over anyone's ability to see in Trump the possibility to lead this nation.
Donald Trump has been a vile creation of excess from the beginning of his pursuit of fame and fortune. Nothing in his history would lead anyone to surmise Trump has the capacity to act in the interest of anyone other than himself much less of nation of over 300 million.
The con artist, the flimflam man, pick your own sobriquet. Only the truly deluded could possibly believe there is a redeeming quality that recommends Trump to the office of President.
From the beginning I have been dumbfounded over anyone's ability to see in Trump the possibility to lead this nation.
Donald Trump has been a vile creation of excess from the beginning of his pursuit of fame and fortune. Nothing in his history would lead anyone to surmise Trump has the capacity to act in the interest of anyone other than himself much less of nation of over 300 million.
The con artist, the flimflam man, pick your own sobriquet. Only the truly deluded could possibly believe there is a redeeming quality that recommends Trump to the office of President.
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Has he gone too far, at last? The answer is no.
He will still get 45+ percent of the vote. The Red States will stay in his column.
The Republicans have done so much damage to this country by stirring up the hatred that has pushed Trump to the nomination, that it won't easily be reversed. Beginning with an attack on a compassionate, intellectual man because he's African American to unleash the debt-up hatred, then doing unbelievable damage to the economy while convincing their willfully ignorant followers that it's Obama's fault, to passing Christian Sharia laws to discriminate against all they hate, the ground was laid for Trump. And the believers will dismiss this latest revelation, truly not even his worst, compared to suggesting the assassination of Ms. Clinton to cozy admiration of the Russian dictator, not wanting to admit what tragedy would result from a Trump presidency.
This isn't junior high school. You're not electing a physical education teacher. At least some of you, come to your senses. Don't doom us all because of your juvenile behavior.
Vote for Ms. Clinton.
He will still get 45+ percent of the vote. The Red States will stay in his column.
The Republicans have done so much damage to this country by stirring up the hatred that has pushed Trump to the nomination, that it won't easily be reversed. Beginning with an attack on a compassionate, intellectual man because he's African American to unleash the debt-up hatred, then doing unbelievable damage to the economy while convincing their willfully ignorant followers that it's Obama's fault, to passing Christian Sharia laws to discriminate against all they hate, the ground was laid for Trump. And the believers will dismiss this latest revelation, truly not even his worst, compared to suggesting the assassination of Ms. Clinton to cozy admiration of the Russian dictator, not wanting to admit what tragedy would result from a Trump presidency.
This isn't junior high school. You're not electing a physical education teacher. At least some of you, come to your senses. Don't doom us all because of your juvenile behavior.
Vote for Ms. Clinton.
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I personally, want my leaders to be beyond reproach and with elevated character and morals. I want them to be empathetic as well. Without empathy, there is no respect for our fellow human beings. It is that simple.
Donald Trump does not qualify as a leader, let alone a decent human being.
Donald Trump does not qualify as a leader, let alone a decent human being.
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Ryan and McConnell will continue to back Trump until and unless (and only then) he becomes a liability to their prospects of retaining the House and Senate. He will be their perfect President: a stupid blowhard whose antics will distract public attention away from the savagely reactionary laws they intend passing for him to then dutifully sign. If and when the polls show him to be a millstone around their necks, then and only then will they disown him and hope they can ram through a successful substitute. 'Til then, he can all but commit cold blooded murder and they will somehow ignore it. Either way, this man's candidacy and the ugliness it has exposed will remain a stain on our nation's character for quite some time.
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The most telling is the apology: Deflection, attack others, down play, offend the ones that may be offended (how stupid are you by being offended).
Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, he does not consume alcohol. The standard excuse for such talk to be under the influence is out of reach.
We saw the real man - without filters.
Last: The sniffing is back. Perhaps emotional discomfort creates his allergic sniffing. Watch out for it in Sunday's debate.
Unfortunately for Mr. Trump, he does not consume alcohol. The standard excuse for such talk to be under the influence is out of reach.
We saw the real man - without filters.
Last: The sniffing is back. Perhaps emotional discomfort creates his allergic sniffing. Watch out for it in Sunday's debate.
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I hope some of the women who he claimed to have assaulted will come forward with sworn affidavits that will lead to trump's arrest. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He admitted to bush that he does it, and he admitted it again in his fake apology. It would be a lock cinch prosecution of a serial sexual predator.
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I share Trump's shame. I wonder if I've been sufficiently feminized to recognize how incorrect my behavior is in any moment in the company of males? I suppose I pretend to be ironic. Or maybe were I rich and powerful I too would have been blind and violent and entitled as Donald. He's stupid, and showing off trying to impress a younger male. I'm a middle aged male steeped in hypocracy and sexism. What a lesson the Donald brings upon my shoulders.
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Trump hires people to agree with him and the others around him are beholden in some way, so he is surrounded by sycophants. The run for President is the first time he has had a reality check, and it is well past time for it. He has been able to be vulgar, abusive, dishonest, and stiff honest workers and business people. Finally, he is being judged by people who are not obliged, and he is confused. It would be wonderful if he would just disappear from the public permanently. I think the man is incapable of shame.
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Even in 2005 such talk would have been deemed disgusting and offensive.It would not even be heard on loading docks or construction sites since it would have violated the sex discrimination acts , which included language, in the workplace.
To include Bill Clinton with hearsay is not even relevant here. Mr. Clinton is not up for office.
What will it take to get the leaders of the GOP to publicly denounce this vile individual?
To include Bill Clinton with hearsay is not even relevant here. Mr. Clinton is not up for office.
What will it take to get the leaders of the GOP to publicly denounce this vile individual?
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If his woman obnoxiousness is enough to change minds about Trump, all well and good, but I am mystified that it took so long.
Apparently, Trump's hatred of immigrants/minorities or his desire to use nuclear weapons or his possible Supreme Court nominees weren't enough to alarm voters.
We may not be a serious country. The dead soldiers at Normandy are turning over in their graves.
Apparently, Trump's hatred of immigrants/minorities or his desire to use nuclear weapons or his possible Supreme Court nominees weren't enough to alarm voters.
We may not be a serious country. The dead soldiers at Normandy are turning over in their graves.
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The long, long line of Republican leaders who think Trump should lead us over the next four years include Senate Majority Leader McConnell, House Speaker Ryan, Whip McCarthy, Senators Hatch, McCain, Johnson, Collins, Sessions, Corker, Ayote, Rubio, Burr, and Toomey, Governor Haley, Representative Scalise, Ed Gillespie, and many other Republican elected officials. This is in addition to the approximately 9% of Americans who voted for Trump during the primaries.
Fortunately, a number of Republican leaders have not hidden under a rock and cried surrender. Govs. Kasich and Romney, and Senators Warner, Graham, Sasse, Flake and Kirk have shown they have guts and respect for human life and dignity.
One thing will be true after November: Republican leaders who support Trump will find that support to be a death knell to their political futures. After November, voters will call on such elected officials to explain their support for someone with such vile character and values. Voters will remember the endorsement they made.
Fortunately, a number of Republican leaders have not hidden under a rock and cried surrender. Govs. Kasich and Romney, and Senators Warner, Graham, Sasse, Flake and Kirk have shown they have guts and respect for human life and dignity.
One thing will be true after November: Republican leaders who support Trump will find that support to be a death knell to their political futures. After November, voters will call on such elected officials to explain their support for someone with such vile character and values. Voters will remember the endorsement they made.
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I am a Hillary supporter and a senior citizen. I do understand (as a woman) how things used to be. The apology was well written until the last paragraph about Bill Clinton. Then I saw he went back to being the child he is. "Na na na. He did it too and even worse." The comments about Clinton negated the apology for me. Why couldn't he be a man, accept responsibility, and not try to make his actions less than they were by pointing the finger at someone else who has nothing to do with the situation he is in? Because someone else did something wrong does not make your actions acceptable.
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Schadenfreude. There is no statute of limitations on disgusting behavior. We all have skeletons in our closets and we all have individual history tales that follow us wherever we go. It is about time for The Donald to suppress his own belief in his impeccability and face facts. He is the most disgusting candidate in history, and lie as he may, there is little chance at redemption. Someone who says, "Believe me!" as often as Trump does, is not to be believed. Someone who complains about a situation being "Unfair" all of the time should be a paragon of fairness in his dealings with others. Trump is not! Trump has earned his ugly reputation and he must own it.
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The Republican party has waged a war on women, slashing funding for family planning and women’s health issues and continues to deny funding for family leave. It persists in ripping apart the social safety net, ensuring single mothers and their children remain mired in poverty. Republicans seem to feel that shaming women is the most effective method to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies.
So now the GOP finds itself led by Donald Trump, a man who brags about essentially sexually assaulting women, groping them at will against their will.
This is a man who believes he can abuse anyone he wants – because his wealth has walled him off from ever hearing the word “no.” It is starting to look like he will finally hear it, resoundingly, on Nov. 8.
So now the GOP finds itself led by Donald Trump, a man who brags about essentially sexually assaulting women, groping them at will against their will.
This is a man who believes he can abuse anyone he wants – because his wealth has walled him off from ever hearing the word “no.” It is starting to look like he will finally hear it, resoundingly, on Nov. 8.
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After adopting citizenship of this great country I used to tell my global friends and others yes there are shortcomings with us American too human beings but we have system where we select/ elect the best to represent us within and abroad globally. As best come forward to offer themselves to represent us and political parties offer their candidates the best of the best but with lewd --- involved a 59 years old a celebrity what excuse can be acceptable. I wonder who with a conscious can speak for him. May God have mercy on our nation who has to give leadership to the world.
Perhaps we should feel grateful that Trump has appeared as an extreme and exaggerated mirror, so that we may all see this kind of mindset and why talk like this is so very harmful. Sticks and stone can break my bones and names will always hurt me. Let us hope that we as a society will move towards more compassionate and loving speech that will result in actions that will result in a more peaceful and loving society.
The first thing to do is to stand up and not allow Trump to be President! And afterwards examine our own behavior.
The first thing to do is to stand up and not allow Trump to be President! And afterwards examine our own behavior.
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There was no surprise that Trump said this and believes his money and power are so attractive that women are waiting in line to have him as a sexual conquest. Winning the election is probably no longer in the cards for donald but the nations problem remains, which is we have around 50 million of our fellow citizens who see his demeanor, and level of knowledge and intelligence as the best attributes possible for President of the USA. Their defense when questioned about this is "the other person does it to (Bill Clinton's Infidelities are now Hillary's fault)"! I remember using that excuse with my grade-school Notre Dame Nuns and was quickly shamed into never excusing my actions because someone else had done the same thing.
Trump will quickly become just a bad chapter in American history but we will have to contend with his supporters for a long time and that is more worrisome than the man himself. I think the NYT needs to devote more time of explaining how to deal with these supporters .... they are have kept this country in a state of gridlock for too long
Trump will quickly become just a bad chapter in American history but we will have to contend with his supporters for a long time and that is more worrisome than the man himself. I think the NYT needs to devote more time of explaining how to deal with these supporters .... they are have kept this country in a state of gridlock for too long
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JFK. Gary Hart. Bill Clinton. Dominique Strauss-Kahn. All democrat/socialist and all just as challenged as Trump in their treatment of women as sexual objects. I guess the difference being that they kept it behind closed doors - or tried to.
All of these men were/are sexist pigs just as much as Donald Trump is a sexist pig.
A lot - I mean a lot - of men are sexist pigs. It may not be in their actual actions since most can't get away with it. Remember Jimmy Carter's lust in his heart? But, as Trump points out, men in power, with money, with celebrity or all three can and do get away with treating women like objects. And there are women - a lot of women - who are ok with it if not loving it.
For those women that don't love it, which I would think would include Hillary Clinton, what does it say about them when they let their men get away with this kind of crude, sexist and disgusting behavior? Where is the call for them to dump these men and re-enpower themselves?
Vote Gary Johnson or Jill Stein - a vote for change is a vote against the two-party power structure that has given us these two extremely unworthy candidates for US President.
All of these men were/are sexist pigs just as much as Donald Trump is a sexist pig.
A lot - I mean a lot - of men are sexist pigs. It may not be in their actual actions since most can't get away with it. Remember Jimmy Carter's lust in his heart? But, as Trump points out, men in power, with money, with celebrity or all three can and do get away with treating women like objects. And there are women - a lot of women - who are ok with it if not loving it.
For those women that don't love it, which I would think would include Hillary Clinton, what does it say about them when they let their men get away with this kind of crude, sexist and disgusting behavior? Where is the call for them to dump these men and re-enpower themselves?
Vote Gary Johnson or Jill Stein - a vote for change is a vote against the two-party power structure that has given us these two extremely unworthy candidates for US President.
Too much hand wringing over the "fine points" of Trump's adolescent behavior. It is symptomatic of the deeper problem -- he's not a functional adult. His inability to get along with women is diagnostic of a whole range of faults that make him unfit to be President or to have much authority of any kind. He can trash the Clintons, but the fact is that they've constructed a life-long marriage and partnership.
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Please do not waste our time blaming Trump alone, this is really a snapshot of how far we as a nation have come regarding supporting politicians and candidates. How can millions who were supporting Trump still continue to support him, have we no shame? How can we select a candidate like Trump, our system is not working. As a reporter wrote, the average American voter is politically ignorant, does not analyse the abilities and background of the candidates, does not follow the actions and speeches of the candidates. It is a sorry situation, and we must blame ourselves that we have let our politics deteriorate and become one of anger, wild accusations, filth and nothing constructive. Sorry, but something must be done to prevent this again four years from now.
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And what of his poor wife and family -- especially his ten year old son? Melanie may have entered her marriage with eyes wide open -- after all, despite his protestations that "this is not who I am, " this is, indeed, the person Donald Trump has been his entire life, up to and including the present. He's not sorry IF he anyone was offended, he's sorry he was caught. And the five year old, "he did it, too" claim about Bill Clinton confirms that he's not sorry in the least. It's the two wrongs make a right defense. From the person seeking the highest office in the land.
Sadly, many of his supporters will continue to support him. Party before country and before everything else, it would seem. Common decency. Respect. Dignity. I, too, wonder how Paul Ryan can continue to hold this man up as a model for his children, for our children, and how Pence is a "Christian" first. Anyone who has any moral center, any moral compass, would disavow him, immediately, without hesitation. That Pence has not speaks volumes about the order of his priorities.
Sadly, many of his supporters will continue to support him. Party before country and before everything else, it would seem. Common decency. Respect. Dignity. I, too, wonder how Paul Ryan can continue to hold this man up as a model for his children, for our children, and how Pence is a "Christian" first. Anyone who has any moral center, any moral compass, would disavow him, immediately, without hesitation. That Pence has not speaks volumes about the order of his priorities.
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As the son of a strong and intelligent woman and the father of a 17-year-old girl who also is becoming a fully actualized independent woman. I am profoundly offended by Mr.Trumps remarks.
Mr. Trump's argument that this is just "locker room talk" just doesn't wash. It is the excuse of a previous generation in which masculinity was measured in braggadocio and conquest. Those values no longer apply and anyone who holds them, especially a candidate for president of the United States, is out of step with the America he proposes to govern.
I wonder what his daughters are thinking about today?
Mr. Trump's argument that this is just "locker room talk" just doesn't wash. It is the excuse of a previous generation in which masculinity was measured in braggadocio and conquest. Those values no longer apply and anyone who holds them, especially a candidate for president of the United States, is out of step with the America he proposes to govern.
I wonder what his daughters are thinking about today?
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Thanks to the cartoonish, over-the-topness of Donald Trump we essentially have a one candidate race for President. The bar has been lowered so far for her that nothing she has done can conjure a raised eyebrow on these pages let alone serious concern. Played loose and reckless, illegally, with classified documents? Meh. Turned Libya into a festering mess during her tenure as Secretary of State? Yawn. Toadying up to anyone who waived a greenback under her foundation's nose (see story buried in the front page of today's edition)? Who cares. If there is one small positive thing that comes out of this election perhaps it will be a national distrust of having two New York insiders at the top of both party tickets and of the city's flagship newspaper touting one of them as having sterling qualities.
Maybe Ivana was saying the truth when in 1889, under oath, in her divorce process, remarked that she felt violated by Donald.
Each time, I think that there is nothing worse to learn about Donald. Each time I have been proven wrong.
The GOP leadership should say publicly who will they vote for and save the little dignity they may have left.
Each time, I think that there is nothing worse to learn about Donald. Each time I have been proven wrong.
The GOP leadership should say publicly who will they vote for and save the little dignity they may have left.
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Many commentators here and many of the Republicans who issued critical statements (while maintaining their support) focus on the "words", as if this were just one more case of Trump saying outrageous things. This is misleading. It's not just about offensive words -- Mr. Trump claims to be describing real actions, encounters, and patterns of behavior towards real people -- and it's just plain creepy to hear his words as he meets and relates to his "escort" in the video. Those patterns of behavior suggest a degree of obsessiveness, narcissism, and utter disregard for the (legally protected) rights and dignity of other human beings. This is not just talk. I respect people's right to have private conversations that I might deem offensive. I don't want big brother listening to everything I or anyone else says, and I don't want every conversation to be subject to judgments that may not take into account context, humor, sarcasm, anger, posturing, or the particular relationship among the speakers. But, all of that is irrelevant here -- this isn't just "guys' talk" or gawking out a window; this is a man (who happens to be running for president!) telling us how he has behaved, how he does behave, and how he will behave. That's criminal, despicable, and deplorable. The only thing funny about this was his comment about Gerald Ford stumbling. Well, I don't think he ever stumbled like this!
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Dinald Trump should not be our President. Neither should Hillary Clinton.
Thanks to WikiLeaks we now have the proof that Hillary is in the bag for the NeoLiberal economic policies favored by Wall Street, the so called Free Trade deals she claims to disavow and the very de-regulation that helped enable the 2007-8 meltdown and recession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-w...
She lied to voters and suppressed these speeches. Her paymasters start with Lloyd Blankfein and extend throughout the heads I win tails you lose cabal that rips off ordinary Americans every day.
If either of these people are elected we should replace Old Glory with a plain white flag with a Banana and Dollar sign on it.
Thanks to WikiLeaks we now have the proof that Hillary is in the bag for the NeoLiberal economic policies favored by Wall Street, the so called Free Trade deals she claims to disavow and the very de-regulation that helped enable the 2007-8 meltdown and recession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speeches-w...
She lied to voters and suppressed these speeches. Her paymasters start with Lloyd Blankfein and extend throughout the heads I win tails you lose cabal that rips off ordinary Americans every day.
If either of these people are elected we should replace Old Glory with a plain white flag with a Banana and Dollar sign on it.
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Trump's long pattern of crude, demeaning behavior toward women, as reported by AP last Monday, can only be described as the definition of creating a hostile work environment. Any executive of a publicly traded corporation (as opposed to Trump's privately owned sham businesses) would be summarily dismissed in a heartbeat.
Yet, he pathologically asserts that "these words don't reflect who I am"?
Yet, he pathologically asserts that "these words don't reflect who I am"?
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I have a 12 year old daughter who is very precious to me. I cannot let her watch the news cycle because the Republican nominee for President is a crude, vile person who demeans women, immigrants, the disabled, and entire religions.
The Republican Party used to be a serious party. With this nominee it has become contemptible. And the Evangelical Trump apologists out in full force this morning are even worse.
I thought Clinton went too far in her "basket of deplorable" comments. Now I am genuinely not sure. We'll see how strong Trump's support remains. Is the electorate supporting Trump absolutely blind or do they share his deplorable views of women and condone sexual assault? It's that simple.
The Republican Party used to be a serious party. With this nominee it has become contemptible. And the Evangelical Trump apologists out in full force this morning are even worse.
I thought Clinton went too far in her "basket of deplorable" comments. Now I am genuinely not sure. We'll see how strong Trump's support remains. Is the electorate supporting Trump absolutely blind or do they share his deplorable views of women and condone sexual assault? It's that simple.
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This week the Royal Canadian Mounted Police a well respected, well trained government controlled police force acknowledged that the way women officer's were treated from 1974 when they were first allowed to serve until today was shameful. Donald Trump is not alone. This is our culture. This is our shame.
Two weeks ago Ross Douthat wrote an op-ed about the Catholic Church changing its culture and how he could not accept that change. My comment which was not printed was that when something is wrong very often it has always been wrong and it is never too late to do what is right.
Confirming that Donald Trump is the poster child for bad behaviour seems little enough punishment for a society that continues to reward those who are richly compensated for behaving badly.
America must change its fundamental belief in to the victors belong the spoils. It seems to me that the most religious of all the Western Democracies is the most anti Christian, anti Muslim and anti Jewish of all the Western Democracies.
Two weeks ago Ross Douthat wrote an op-ed about the Catholic Church changing its culture and how he could not accept that change. My comment which was not printed was that when something is wrong very often it has always been wrong and it is never too late to do what is right.
Confirming that Donald Trump is the poster child for bad behaviour seems little enough punishment for a society that continues to reward those who are richly compensated for behaving badly.
America must change its fundamental belief in to the victors belong the spoils. It seems to me that the most religious of all the Western Democracies is the most anti Christian, anti Muslim and anti Jewish of all the Western Democracies.
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One cannot mistake the character of the man the Republican Party put forth as their presidential nominee. There can be no mincing of words, brushing of facts, or off-hand apologies. This Republican presidential candidate is a sexual predator. He is an affront to the notion of decency and an offense to women.
On November 8, we have a historic opportunity to move forward on the noble charge echoing down from generation to generation of Americans, a vow to fulfill the promise of Democracy, a call to continuously redefine ourselves as Americans so to form a more perfect Union ... On November 8 we must send an unambiguous message to the Republican Party that the office of the Presidency is not entertainment, it is not a reality show. This office is the most responsible privilege any one American can be entrusted to hold. The Republican Party should be resoundingly defeated across the board for thrusting this predator upon their fellow citizens.
On November 8, we have a historic opportunity to move forward on the noble charge echoing down from generation to generation of Americans, a vow to fulfill the promise of Democracy, a call to continuously redefine ourselves as Americans so to form a more perfect Union ... On November 8 we must send an unambiguous message to the Republican Party that the office of the Presidency is not entertainment, it is not a reality show. This office is the most responsible privilege any one American can be entrusted to hold. The Republican Party should be resoundingly defeated across the board for thrusting this predator upon their fellow citizens.
The stress this man foists upon our country thru insults, bragadiccio,
and schoolyard bully behavior defies description. I am looking forward to the evening of Nov 8th right after the polls close for the nightmare to end.
Wait, given his penchant for mendacity and suing others,we can fully expect Trump to bankrupt himself financially by suing over the outcome of the election. It's the damage to the electrical system and our government that such loser behavior entails that should worry us all.
We will then see what type of country we are. I shudder.
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and schoolyard bully behavior defies description. I am looking forward to the evening of Nov 8th right after the polls close for the nightmare to end.
Wait, given his penchant for mendacity and suing others,we can fully expect Trump to bankrupt himself financially by suing over the outcome of the election. It's the damage to the electrical system and our government that such loser behavior entails that should worry us all.
We will then see what type of country we are. I shudder.
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Nothing that highlights what Donald Trump has actually done or said surprises me, nor has it for at least the past year.
Like many women, I saw through Trump from Day One. I have unfortunately known clones of Trump, and throughout my life I have had to endure their manipulations of my family life, my social life, my sex life, and my work life. Such men are without self-knowledge, empathy, or any redeeming qualities.
They will break you if they can.
The coming election is about many things, but principal among them is to highlight the persistence and consummate professionalism of one woman who deserves our respect as well as our votes. I'm for Her.
Like many women, I saw through Trump from Day One. I have unfortunately known clones of Trump, and throughout my life I have had to endure their manipulations of my family life, my social life, my sex life, and my work life. Such men are without self-knowledge, empathy, or any redeeming qualities.
They will break you if they can.
The coming election is about many things, but principal among them is to highlight the persistence and consummate professionalism of one woman who deserves our respect as well as our votes. I'm for Her.
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The fearsome defeat and ruin of the Republican Party in November will be a great victory for the American people because the plutocratic and theocratic forces of that party are in direct conflict with democracy and justice.
The multiple intolerances of the Republican Party, which I list below, require the thorough defeat of that nasty party:
hatred of immigrants,
religious intolerance: you follow my interpretation of God's will or we'll make a law telling you what you can and can't do with your body.
intolerance toward vital elements of the welfare state, from public sector workers to social security
intolerance toward diplomacy and the decided preference for war all the time
intolerance toward the constitutional principle of church and state
the notion that the ordinary citizen and wage earner should foot the bill of government so that plutocrats like trump should be able to abuse and assault women and exploit their fellow man.
The multiple intolerances of the Republican Party, which I list below, require the thorough defeat of that nasty party:
hatred of immigrants,
religious intolerance: you follow my interpretation of God's will or we'll make a law telling you what you can and can't do with your body.
intolerance toward vital elements of the welfare state, from public sector workers to social security
intolerance toward diplomacy and the decided preference for war all the time
intolerance toward the constitutional principle of church and state
the notion that the ordinary citizen and wage earner should foot the bill of government so that plutocrats like trump should be able to abuse and assault women and exploit their fellow man.
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Whether deliberate or not, there is an elegant symmetry that a Bush will prove to be Donald's undoing. I can't help but hear the admonishment of Jeb, Barbara, and the entire Bush family in the release of this video. Yes, Billy should feel embarrassed about the conversation, but the comments were never his. Had he been a bigger man, he could have and should have stopped or redirected the conversation. But the comments were from Trump himself. That Trump doesn't see that he did anything wrong is testament to the depths of his depravity. America has had more than enough clear indication of what a complete and utter narcissistic sociopath Trump is, and always has been. There is no longer any room for excuses. He, and all his misogyny and racism need to be consigned to the dustbin of history. We, as a people, are so much better than his vile attitudes would suggest and only with a thorough repudiation can we hope to grow and move forward as a nation.
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Any male heterosexual will talk like Mr. Trump did, when in the company of other sexually active male heterosexuals. Mr Trump did and said nothing wrong. He was just unfortunate in having his conversation recorded. It was bad luck, nothing more, nothing less.
In any male locker room, in private gyms, in the YMCA, there will be this kind of talk, there is nothing wrong with it. It is normal and healthy.
Women will talk like this when they are in the company of other heterosexual women and indeed, heterosexual men. I have at times heard glowing references to the size and characteristics of their boyfriend's male organ from female friends. I was not offended, in fact I laughed.
The only people offended by this kind of talk seem to be politically correct men and women, male and female homosexuals and homophiles.
In any male locker room, in private gyms, in the YMCA, there will be this kind of talk, there is nothing wrong with it. It is normal and healthy.
Women will talk like this when they are in the company of other heterosexual women and indeed, heterosexual men. I have at times heard glowing references to the size and characteristics of their boyfriend's male organ from female friends. I was not offended, in fact I laughed.
The only people offended by this kind of talk seem to be politically correct men and women, male and female homosexuals and homophiles.
I hope that this election motivates the GOP to start finding a true moral and respectful ground. A party that includes decency towards all people and their right to exist. A party that includes the acceptance of the voters wishes, rather than one who is determined to destroy rather than legislate. A party with a resolve to start representing the people rather than their pockets or corporate interest and corporate welfare.
Let this be a pivotal point in finding the way back to decency, diplomacy and statesmanship.
Let this be a pivotal point in finding the way back to decency, diplomacy and statesmanship.
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This latest outrage has not changed my opinion of Trump--I never intended to vote for him. But it has changed my opinion of those who do support him. I am an independent who has always quietly voted for which ever candidate, regardless of party, who seemed best to me. And I always respected those who chose otherwise even as I disagreed with them. No more.
That Republicans support and continue to support someone so unqualified and so personally disgusting is simply intolerable. I will never again vote for any member of the Republican Party, for any position--county, state or national. Never. Furthermore, I will actively campaign against all Republican candidates. As someone who is just a voter I don't even know what "actively campaign" means. But I will find out. I've been asleep while the America I care about seems to have rotted around me. Now I am awake.
That Republicans support and continue to support someone so unqualified and so personally disgusting is simply intolerable. I will never again vote for any member of the Republican Party, for any position--county, state or national. Never. Furthermore, I will actively campaign against all Republican candidates. As someone who is just a voter I don't even know what "actively campaign" means. But I will find out. I've been asleep while the America I care about seems to have rotted around me. Now I am awake.
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Mr. Ryan, and many others who present as Republicans will likely remain conflicted with regard to preservation of the "party of Lincoln" versus a desire for one-party dominance that requires support for the likes - literally - of Donald J. Trump. It may be high time for them to reflect upon the meaning of our delicate experiment, so carefully designed as to withstand centuries of challenges. Are they really prepared to tear it apart? What have they to offer in its place?
I happen to be reading a book right now on the Founding Fathers, who feared greatly that someone like Trump would come along and disgrace the experiment in democracy. They knew that developing moral character, what they called virtue, was essential to the running of a democracy. They took great risks to start this country, understanding that they would be hanged as traitors if they didn't succeed, and after they won independence, knew that the idea of starting a republic would be laughed at if they failed. And now we nominate a frivolous man, an arrested adolescent who has never taken a real risk in his life, sadly the best of a very sorry lot, as president. I hope we can remember that everything we have is not granted, not a law of physics, but constructed, and do what we can to protect it, which would start with voting for a qualified candidate, ie Clinton.
To borrow a line from "As Good as It Gets", Donald Trump is "an absolute horror of a human being." He has the emotional maturity of a 5-year-old, but unfortunately, that five-year-old lives in an adult body that's never in its life been denied anything it wants We see again and again that his instinctive reaction to any criticism or rebuke is to childishly point the finger at someone else.
Hillary has a good many strong points - intelligence, knowledge, experience - but the strongest in my mind is that she's the only person on the planet standing between us and the certain disaster of a Donald Trump presidency.
Hillary has a good many strong points - intelligence, knowledge, experience - but the strongest in my mind is that she's the only person on the planet standing between us and the certain disaster of a Donald Trump presidency.
Yes, the tape is mire than a decade old. His comment that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters is much more recent. In both cases, we see a man who believes that he can do as he pleases and that there would be no consequences for his actions. And, he's proud of that perception. The obvious question to the American electorate, do we really want to make someone like this with the awesome power and responsibilities that come with the Presidency?
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Many will jump on the bandwagon and claim that this is the final outrage. Its a sleazy comment, but it isn't this that disqualifies him.
His xenophobic, racist, misogynist, ill-informed, needlessly insulting, entitled, poor thought process, conniving, me-first and screw you behavior has been apparent most of his adult public life.
To trust a guy with the nuclear code who routinely insults people but then goes on a twitter rant when someone stands up to his bullying is an existential threat. He represents the worst in Americans. The lofty ideals we claim to aspire to - indeed our moral standing among nations - would be viewed as empty words and the global respect that had to be restored after Bush would sink to an even deeper low that may be irrecoverable.
Hillary is a status quo candidate and we have to do better than business as usual. But to paraphrase Bloomberg, at least she is sane and competent.
His xenophobic, racist, misogynist, ill-informed, needlessly insulting, entitled, poor thought process, conniving, me-first and screw you behavior has been apparent most of his adult public life.
To trust a guy with the nuclear code who routinely insults people but then goes on a twitter rant when someone stands up to his bullying is an existential threat. He represents the worst in Americans. The lofty ideals we claim to aspire to - indeed our moral standing among nations - would be viewed as empty words and the global respect that had to be restored after Bush would sink to an even deeper low that may be irrecoverable.
Hillary is a status quo candidate and we have to do better than business as usual. But to paraphrase Bloomberg, at least she is sane and competent.
Man is born with a base set of instincts which over time a civilized society helps to soften and moderate. For some reason Trump never experienced this maturation process and we are left with an entirely uncivilized animal pursuing the most highly prized office in our civilized society. We cannot have stooped this low. Have we all lost all sense of decency and pride?
I am someone who is open to one day voting conservative, but I can tell you I will never vote Republican. The GOP brand has been destroying itself for decades and Trump is the lethal injection to its credibility. They've long since detached themselves from reality-based policy. But worse still is the steady parade of morally-bankrupt and hypocritical crazies who run for office under that hodgepodge of a derelict platform.
A new center-right party should have cleaved off back at the convention. Although I'm not sure anyone on the national stage right now fits the bill of socially liberal/fiscally conservative. I'm sure they exist on local and state level. We need at least two grown-up parties for this county to function again.
A new center-right party should have cleaved off back at the convention. Although I'm not sure anyone on the national stage right now fits the bill of socially liberal/fiscally conservative. I'm sure they exist on local and state level. We need at least two grown-up parties for this county to function again.
Dear NYT.
Is it not time to air the civil suit filed by the minor who was allegedly raped by Trump with eye witnesses who were Trump employees and whose deposition statements support the claim for damages?
Lisa Bloom is an attorney who I greatly respect and admire. Having spoken with her personally about these matters, I am assured that Trump's past behavior as a sexual predator and serial rapist is a veritable fact and utterly disqualifies him from consideration as president of the USA.
The affidavits published with the original petition are powerful accounts that leave no room for doubt about what happened. They are made by former female Trump employees and/or agents retained by him to scout out pliable minor girls. The violence and threats against the victims' family indicate that Donald has been and probably still is a criminal walking free and still a danger to women.
Is it not time to air the civil suit filed by the minor who was allegedly raped by Trump with eye witnesses who were Trump employees and whose deposition statements support the claim for damages?
Lisa Bloom is an attorney who I greatly respect and admire. Having spoken with her personally about these matters, I am assured that Trump's past behavior as a sexual predator and serial rapist is a veritable fact and utterly disqualifies him from consideration as president of the USA.
The affidavits published with the original petition are powerful accounts that leave no room for doubt about what happened. They are made by former female Trump employees and/or agents retained by him to scout out pliable minor girls. The violence and threats against the victims' family indicate that Donald has been and probably still is a criminal walking free and still a danger to women.
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Of course the Donald is sleazy and wholly unfit to be President. But, his "character" is less important than his policy positions that are remarkably consistent with all the other 17 failed GOP nominee wannabees. Unacceptable, regressive policy ought to be what's covered versus "scandal" headlines. After Hillary hopefully wins the election, there will be a broad sense that enough Americans thankfully found Trump's inherent ugliness unacceptable. This is hardly a mandate for desperately needed progressive policy initiatives.
No one can possibly be surprised by any of this. Anyone who knows anything about this man would say this is completely in character for "The Donald". What I am waiting for is someone to make the obvious inference that at the time of these particular remarks Trump was, at the very least, a committed benefactor to the Democratic party and decried all things having to do with the Republicans. In other words he has always been a sleezeball but people were OK with it as long as he was their sleezeball. This and far worse has long been known but the revelations come just a month prior to the election. If the Democrats would care even a little more about the good of the nation as a whole, instead of optimizing their chances to further plunder the republic after the next election, they would launch these October surprises a decade or even a year earlier. Having said all that, the complete corruption of the leadership in the Republican party makes it a schadenfreude moment of epic proportions. Unfortunately, we will all be the eventual losers, whoever wins in November.
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By now Trump has become just an emblem of the desperate state the political system in this country. There is now way he can/should be elected. It is nothing but (bad) entertainment.
The real story here is in the alternative. Trump's piggishness only deflects the reality of a presidency for Hillary Clinton and a trip to the White House for her husband.
To quote: "We elect our presidents in the hope that they will do their best for us... to represent the best in us." Does anyone really, truly believe that of Hillary Clinton? Mrs. Clinton does not/will not represent anything but her own selfish interests. Files can be lost and misplaced, intermediaries can be used to deflect the blame, loopholes can be exploited, emails are deleted, and people have died. While we paid her salary.
Yes, Trump is a pig, and should never, ever become our president. Shame on the Republican party. But Hillary is a monster. Shame on us.
The real story here is in the alternative. Trump's piggishness only deflects the reality of a presidency for Hillary Clinton and a trip to the White House for her husband.
To quote: "We elect our presidents in the hope that they will do their best for us... to represent the best in us." Does anyone really, truly believe that of Hillary Clinton? Mrs. Clinton does not/will not represent anything but her own selfish interests. Files can be lost and misplaced, intermediaries can be used to deflect the blame, loopholes can be exploited, emails are deleted, and people have died. While we paid her salary.
Yes, Trump is a pig, and should never, ever become our president. Shame on the Republican party. But Hillary is a monster. Shame on us.
For the last few weeks I have been reflecting on Lincoln's Gettysburg address, particularly these line:"We are now engaged in a great civil war testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." I think that is it, I did not google the speech to see if I got it exactly right.
I think we are engaged in a great civil war )not so civil actually). And I wonder is this great nation dead or not. If Donald Trump wins the great nation he spoke of is probably dead. We have lost the essential spirit generated by our forefathers and written in the declaration of independence, If Hillary wins we are still engaged in that civil war and we won't know for a while if we are going to right the ship of state and be a nation worth emulating--not because we are perfect or better, but because we are trying to evolve in accordance with the virtue of our founders who were not perfect but seriously reflecting increasing a better society than the world had yet seen, I hope we are not dead yet. And I hope the civil forces rise up and let their voices be heard and create a society where all men and women are equal in value and respected. The stakes in this election could not be higher.
I think we are engaged in a great civil war )not so civil actually). And I wonder is this great nation dead or not. If Donald Trump wins the great nation he spoke of is probably dead. We have lost the essential spirit generated by our forefathers and written in the declaration of independence, If Hillary wins we are still engaged in that civil war and we won't know for a while if we are going to right the ship of state and be a nation worth emulating--not because we are perfect or better, but because we are trying to evolve in accordance with the virtue of our founders who were not perfect but seriously reflecting increasing a better society than the world had yet seen, I hope we are not dead yet. And I hope the civil forces rise up and let their voices be heard and create a society where all men and women are equal in value and respected. The stakes in this election could not be higher.
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This was not a locker room, it was a work environment. Even if everyone within hearing range, save the sound engineers, were men, it is inappropriate conversation for work. Speaking about female colleagues in a sexualized way creates a hostile work environment in which women employees are not seen as equal. If this conversation did happen in a locker room, it still would disqualify Donald Trump for public office and anyone else who speaks about women in this manner. Also, what an amateur move by Trump to open his mouth while wearing a body mic and assume it is not live. Or, the other explanation is that he is so blinded by his own entitlement that he could not even fathom that his speech was inappropriate, unethical, wrong and mean.
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It seems to me that Mr. Trump has a serious psychological disorder and he needs professional help for his future well-being. Clearly, he should examined by team of psychiatric/psychology professionals to determine his fitness for holding the office of President of the United States. Maybe he is OK now because he is older but the authority of the office he seeks is too important to leave to chance. It is getting a little late in the process but it should be possible for the GOP to reconvene its convention to decide whether or not to continue with Mr. Trump and if necessary to select a new candidate.
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In a couple of weeks, I'm sharing a long weekend with my high school friends. As Texans, the majority of these friends are Republicans. I've spent time with them over the past few years. All are dear friends - good parents, good grandparents...... good people. But many of these friends are also the deplorables that Hillary referred to. They are sexist, anti-gay, and racist. And even after the revelations of Trump's bus comments, my guess is that they will still vote for him.
The last time I saw these friends was a couple of years ago. We debated climate change, health care and the other political issues of the day. Few points of view were changed. But today, Donald Trump, as their chosen leader, has taken the legs out from under my dear old "deplorable" friends. I'm a progressive who firmly believes that almost every advancement in our American lives have been made by progressives - Social Security, Medicare, Equal Rights, Voting Rights, Women's Rights, Marriage Rights, Healthcare reform, and on and on. Trump's bus conversation is a gift to progressives. And to America. I'll be interested in hearing my deplorable friends' point of view. Honestly, I don't expect much change. But.....
The last time I saw these friends was a couple of years ago. We debated climate change, health care and the other political issues of the day. Few points of view were changed. But today, Donald Trump, as their chosen leader, has taken the legs out from under my dear old "deplorable" friends. I'm a progressive who firmly believes that almost every advancement in our American lives have been made by progressives - Social Security, Medicare, Equal Rights, Voting Rights, Women's Rights, Marriage Rights, Healthcare reform, and on and on. Trump's bus conversation is a gift to progressives. And to America. I'll be interested in hearing my deplorable friends' point of view. Honestly, I don't expect much change. But.....
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Sen. Mike Lee of Utah made a statement tonight directed to Donald Trump. "You sir, are the distraction. It's time for you to step aside".
Well, it's a start.
I would deliver that statement to the entire GOP. They have been the distraction from progress in our country. They are responsible for the messes we have found ourselves in for much of this still young century. And by nominating Donald Trump, by endorsing him, by not disavowing him, by tolerating his insulting desire to become President of the United States, by laying the groundwork for him over the past 60 years, they have proven once again that they are not fit to govern.
From the total destabilization of the Middle East, the fox-watching-the-hen-house policies that led to the near total collapse of the world's economy, and their total obstruction of the President elected by a clear majority of American citizens, they have proven that they are not worthy, nor are they capable of leading this great country.
Now they have violated our critical election process by foisting this despicable man on the country; no matter if they did it directly or indirectly.
Once again, we have a GOP mess to clean up.
Please step aside, all you conservatives, members of the alt-right and neo-cons. Once again, the Democrats and progressives of this country will put things right again. But it's time for you to go.
Well, it's a start.
I would deliver that statement to the entire GOP. They have been the distraction from progress in our country. They are responsible for the messes we have found ourselves in for much of this still young century. And by nominating Donald Trump, by endorsing him, by not disavowing him, by tolerating his insulting desire to become President of the United States, by laying the groundwork for him over the past 60 years, they have proven once again that they are not fit to govern.
From the total destabilization of the Middle East, the fox-watching-the-hen-house policies that led to the near total collapse of the world's economy, and their total obstruction of the President elected by a clear majority of American citizens, they have proven that they are not worthy, nor are they capable of leading this great country.
Now they have violated our critical election process by foisting this despicable man on the country; no matter if they did it directly or indirectly.
Once again, we have a GOP mess to clean up.
Please step aside, all you conservatives, members of the alt-right and neo-cons. Once again, the Democrats and progressives of this country will put things right again. But it's time for you to go.
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Projection. Donald is all projection.
He criticizes the sterling Clinton Foundation:
completely transparent;
saves tens of millions of lives around the world;
and the Clintons accept no salaries for their work.
Yet his own Trump Foundation:
is under investigation;
cannot accept donations;
has used tax-exempt donations from others to pay for Trump's legal settlements;
and political donations to public officials with his business before them.
So of course he attacks the Clinton Foundation.
President Obama was:
a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law;
President of the Harvard Law Review;
taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School;
served in the Illinois State Legislature
and as US Senator of Illinois before becoming President of the US.
Trump, meanwhile, was:
a 2-year transfer student to Wharton college;
joined his daddy's business running segregated housing;
bankrupted 6 companies;
pays no taxes on record;
managed to lose nearly $1 billion in 1995;
and is being sued for fraud for running an unlicensed unaccredited Trump U.
Yet he attacks the President and the entire US government for being incompetent.
He confuses he own personal financial failures, unstable temperament,
and spiritual decline with the world at large.
He can't see the United States is the most powerful country on Earth, with the largest and most diversified economy, and a center of innovation and research.
Keep America Great with Hillary Clinton.
He criticizes the sterling Clinton Foundation:
completely transparent;
saves tens of millions of lives around the world;
and the Clintons accept no salaries for their work.
Yet his own Trump Foundation:
is under investigation;
cannot accept donations;
has used tax-exempt donations from others to pay for Trump's legal settlements;
and political donations to public officials with his business before them.
So of course he attacks the Clinton Foundation.
President Obama was:
a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law;
President of the Harvard Law Review;
taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School;
served in the Illinois State Legislature
and as US Senator of Illinois before becoming President of the US.
Trump, meanwhile, was:
a 2-year transfer student to Wharton college;
joined his daddy's business running segregated housing;
bankrupted 6 companies;
pays no taxes on record;
managed to lose nearly $1 billion in 1995;
and is being sued for fraud for running an unlicensed unaccredited Trump U.
Yet he attacks the President and the entire US government for being incompetent.
He confuses he own personal financial failures, unstable temperament,
and spiritual decline with the world at large.
He can't see the United States is the most powerful country on Earth, with the largest and most diversified economy, and a center of innovation and research.
Keep America Great with Hillary Clinton.
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Recently here in Los Angeles I've overheard some millennials using a new expression. In the past one would differentiate between a racist and a Nazi. Or a right wing tea-vangelical and an offensive loud-mouth. A gun nut or trailer park trash all had their own noun to express the ignorant individual.
Now, this new expression easily sums up all these undesirable traits in one breath. The liar, or jerk, racist, or opinionated lout being referred to is easily summed up as a "Trump Supporter".
Hope the expression catches on and will someday make to to Webster's Dictionary. Future generations and linguists will marvel and perhaps pity those of us who had to use this phrase to express one of the most undesirable groups to inhabit the United States since the Confederates or Revolutionary Era Loyalists took their place in the annuls of being on the absolutely wrong side of history.
Now, this new expression easily sums up all these undesirable traits in one breath. The liar, or jerk, racist, or opinionated lout being referred to is easily summed up as a "Trump Supporter".
Hope the expression catches on and will someday make to to Webster's Dictionary. Future generations and linguists will marvel and perhaps pity those of us who had to use this phrase to express one of the most undesirable groups to inhabit the United States since the Confederates or Revolutionary Era Loyalists took their place in the annuls of being on the absolutely wrong side of history.
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"There is no such hope for Donald Trump."
Oh, no need to be so pessimistic and self-righteous at the same time.
Why, just a small portion of Hillary's $265,000/speech to the "titans of Wall Street" have now been released, and it shows Hillary to have (surprise) lied again.
In a much smaller captioned article (how does the Times defend this probable "liar in chief?"), one of John Podesta's emails makes it clear that Hillary was lying through her teeth when she declared I the midst of her primary battle with Bernie Sanders that "no bank is too big to fail, and no executive too big to jail!" Actually, she told her Wall Street audience just the opposite, proclaiming her belief that "blaming the bankers" was insufficiently nuanced and greater understanding of their small role for the financial crisis should prevail.
Yup, that's your Hill.
Now, Donald is crude. He is not a role model for little kids. But then again, neither were the patron saints of the Dems; JFK or Bill. True, they are not running for office now; but it is mere sophistry to declare that now, after the statute of limitations has run. It is truly a distinction without a difference.
Tough choice, but I will still take Donald Trump the groper over Hillary Clinton the secretive liar whose greatest enemy is not Donald Trump, but WikiLeaks.
As Winston Churchill was wont to state: "The truth is incontrovertible. Some may attack it with malice, some with indifference, but in the end, there it is."
Oh, no need to be so pessimistic and self-righteous at the same time.
Why, just a small portion of Hillary's $265,000/speech to the "titans of Wall Street" have now been released, and it shows Hillary to have (surprise) lied again.
In a much smaller captioned article (how does the Times defend this probable "liar in chief?"), one of John Podesta's emails makes it clear that Hillary was lying through her teeth when she declared I the midst of her primary battle with Bernie Sanders that "no bank is too big to fail, and no executive too big to jail!" Actually, she told her Wall Street audience just the opposite, proclaiming her belief that "blaming the bankers" was insufficiently nuanced and greater understanding of their small role for the financial crisis should prevail.
Yup, that's your Hill.
Now, Donald is crude. He is not a role model for little kids. But then again, neither were the patron saints of the Dems; JFK or Bill. True, they are not running for office now; but it is mere sophistry to declare that now, after the statute of limitations has run. It is truly a distinction without a difference.
Tough choice, but I will still take Donald Trump the groper over Hillary Clinton the secretive liar whose greatest enemy is not Donald Trump, but WikiLeaks.
As Winston Churchill was wont to state: "The truth is incontrovertible. Some may attack it with malice, some with indifference, but in the end, there it is."
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I think Trump's persona cannot be described other than by using the words commonly used to refer to the last part of the human excretory system. However, Bill Clinton, who remains both the hero of many of Trump's liberal opponents and is often cited by his wife as a great leader, fits every definition of a sexual predator that is commonly used by the same liberals today. His misuse of power to further his sexual conquests is a text book example of sexual harassment and assault, if not worse. His wife has been an enabler and has resorted to disgusting attacks on the victims of his aggression. Other honored presidents also had a fairly well documented degree of unacceptable sexual aggression. In the month remaining before the election, I would love to see attention paid to real issues, of which there are many, rather than personality defects.
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How great thou art. These words meant something completely different to our ancestors than to us. They had more to do with Matthew, the hurricane and the disciple, than with red hats and big hair. They expressed a humility and acknowledgement of a greater power, rather than boastfulness and branding. It raises the question of how our understanding of ourselves, individually and as a country, has changed over the last 240 years. Did Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams imagine America deriving its greatness from a constitution, or from its relation to something larger? Is the power of our country contained in a set of words set down on paper, preserved and secure, or are we but one expression of ideas larger than us, that gather and dissipate in changeable forms like storms passing over the planet. Time will tell. Landfall approaches.
I think lots of men have conversations similar to this when they are in private, but few of them have the same sense of entitlement that Donald Trump displays. He treats women as objects to be grabbed and kissed without any regard for the woman's own feelings. He uses that same sense of entitlement to deny payment to companies working on his projects and to pay less federal income tax than a billionaire should. He defends himself by attacking others and while disparaging our infrastructure he refuses to contribute his fair share.
Personally, I find this man so repugnant that I cannot bring myself to watch any of the debates. I wonder how anyone can take this man seriously as a Presidential candidate when it seems so clear that Trump cares about himself and his immediate family and no one else. His political career is based on a personal quest for power and attention. He's has dominated the media for far too long. I only hope that he retires from politics when he is defeated in November.
Personally, I find this man so repugnant that I cannot bring myself to watch any of the debates. I wonder how anyone can take this man seriously as a Presidential candidate when it seems so clear that Trump cares about himself and his immediate family and no one else. His political career is based on a personal quest for power and attention. He's has dominated the media for far too long. I only hope that he retires from politics when he is defeated in November.
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In all kinds of ways, common male attitudes and behaviors are under attack. Aggressive, boastful talk about women, mockery of gays, and authoritarian policing are just some of the most prominent examples. The macho male has been identified as a negative character type. Mostly this is about harm to others but it extends to self-harm, as in football. This is less a political matter and more of a demand for social change. And it is something of class warfare against blue collar masculinity. In the aftermath of the occupy movement and the concern with economic inequality, I find it surprising that the blue collar macho male is being singled out as the most harmful of character types in favor of refinement more characteristic of the sensitive and considerate male that I think of as educated and upper middle class.
The Republican Party needs to acknowledge the origins of the Trump phenomenon. This is not the first time its candidate has campaigned at a reprehensible level in order to appeal to the basest inclinations of its base. The aim of Nixon's Southern strategy was to use the white backlash in the deep South against civil rights legislation, and it helped him win the election. In 1968 the former Confederate states had been solidly Democratic for over a century. The difference is in that election exploiting racism was a conscious strategy. This year Trump's crude outbursts against women, minorities, immigrants, and the disabled are expressions of his true nature. His supporters embrace him because he has legitimized what they have longed to openly say against what they demean as "political correctness." Those who come up with another justification for voting for Trump, (i.e. "the system is broken and at least he'll shake things up") are deluding themselves.
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The difference to me is that Trump was a private citizen, in the entertainment industry, which is notably sexual, when this behavior occurred. Bill Clinton was a government official; either the Governor of Arkansas (Paula Jones and others) or the President of the United States (Monica Lewinsky) when Clinton forced them into sexual acts using his government office as a vehicle for his predations. This behavior did not bother the NY Times or the rest of the left-wing America one bit. Why not? Because it was Bill Clinton and it was understood that the public must accept his pathologies because he otherwise was the great leader of Liberal America.
Because of her naked ambition, Hillary Clinton condoned his behavior and attacked the women who suffered Bill Clinton's abuse. If the final thirty days of the Presidential campaign becomes a expose` of Trump's vulgar statements and Bill Clinton's vulgar misconduct the left-wing media will find it difficult to claim there is a equivalency. Bill Clinton used his status as a governor and then President to feed his sexual compulsions which is significantly different than the crude statements of a private citizen.
Because of her naked ambition, Hillary Clinton condoned his behavior and attacked the women who suffered Bill Clinton's abuse. If the final thirty days of the Presidential campaign becomes a expose` of Trump's vulgar statements and Bill Clinton's vulgar misconduct the left-wing media will find it difficult to claim there is a equivalency. Bill Clinton used his status as a governor and then President to feed his sexual compulsions which is significantly different than the crude statements of a private citizen.
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As a female physician in my 60s, I can attest that this was common in my training years when there were few women doctors. And it is still occurs, just more subtly . In a way, that makes it worse. Now it is plausibly deniable.
Still, there is a larger issue. As heinous as Trump's sexual advances are, they do not solely reflect misogyny .
A larger issue is his abuse of power. In a much less creepy personal way, he also seduced, abused, then discarded his contractors, business partners, and those who bought into his schemes , e.g. Trump University.
Do we really want to give such a man (if one can call him that) the most powerful position in the free world?
Still, there is a larger issue. As heinous as Trump's sexual advances are, they do not solely reflect misogyny .
A larger issue is his abuse of power. In a much less creepy personal way, he also seduced, abused, then discarded his contractors, business partners, and those who bought into his schemes , e.g. Trump University.
Do we really want to give such a man (if one can call him that) the most powerful position in the free world?
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Trump has demonstrated repeatedly over the last year that he is spectacularly ill-equipped and totally unfit to serve in the Oval Office.
The truly sad and disappointing thing about Trump's candidacy is that close to 40% of the voting public still support him. Why? We need to answer that question if we are to move forward as a world class democracy.
It is also sad to see opportunists such as Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani pump their legacies down the drain in hope of securing top jobs in a Trump administration.
And Gov. Mike Pence had a reputation as a good and decent man whose wife went on national television this week heaping high praise on Donald Trump. Why in the name of God is Mike Pence aiding and abetting the candidacy of Donald Trump?
It is indeed sad time for America and the world is watching.
The truly sad and disappointing thing about Trump's candidacy is that close to 40% of the voting public still support him. Why? We need to answer that question if we are to move forward as a world class democracy.
It is also sad to see opportunists such as Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani pump their legacies down the drain in hope of securing top jobs in a Trump administration.
And Gov. Mike Pence had a reputation as a good and decent man whose wife went on national television this week heaping high praise on Donald Trump. Why in the name of God is Mike Pence aiding and abetting the candidacy of Donald Trump?
It is indeed sad time for America and the world is watching.
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Trump is excrement. And we certainly must address the economic pain that played a first-order role in fueling his candidacy.
But in a few weeks, Clinton will be President-elect, and the world and our country will still face the same threats and challenges; only Trump won't, thank God, be distracting us any longer. How are we going to end the stranglehold of the conservative infotainment complex? The GOP has morphed into almost an auxiliary of the fundamentalist Christian Right, which, despite the label, tends to be abominable. Moderates don't see this, partly because the people they hang around bear no resemblance to this, partly because they don't wish to. But that is the reality. And while I agree with Arthur Brooks that Trump was aided by the financial crisis, the soil tillers had long, long been at work.
Ignoring typical pandering to bankers in the leaked Clinton transcripts, most of what she had to say was accurate. Bernie "Bad Ideas" Sanders has pushed her to become something she isn't. Appeasing extremists is perilous. We can't omit the fact that half the country disagrees with us. It's not that the Far Left should be silenced; it's that their ideas should be combated. Moderates must stand up to fanatics (especially in the GOP).
The Right can't become Franklin Graham and the Left, Chomsky. The further we travel down this road, the more polarized we become. Trump will not win. That's obvious at this stage. Post Trump, do we move further apart or closer together?
But in a few weeks, Clinton will be President-elect, and the world and our country will still face the same threats and challenges; only Trump won't, thank God, be distracting us any longer. How are we going to end the stranglehold of the conservative infotainment complex? The GOP has morphed into almost an auxiliary of the fundamentalist Christian Right, which, despite the label, tends to be abominable. Moderates don't see this, partly because the people they hang around bear no resemblance to this, partly because they don't wish to. But that is the reality. And while I agree with Arthur Brooks that Trump was aided by the financial crisis, the soil tillers had long, long been at work.
Ignoring typical pandering to bankers in the leaked Clinton transcripts, most of what she had to say was accurate. Bernie "Bad Ideas" Sanders has pushed her to become something she isn't. Appeasing extremists is perilous. We can't omit the fact that half the country disagrees with us. It's not that the Far Left should be silenced; it's that their ideas should be combated. Moderates must stand up to fanatics (especially in the GOP).
The Right can't become Franklin Graham and the Left, Chomsky. The further we travel down this road, the more polarized we become. Trump will not win. That's obvious at this stage. Post Trump, do we move further apart or closer together?
My early teenage years were spent with a few guys on the street corner occasionally getting together for “Filthy Phil’s” hour. Underage drinking was mixed with vivid descriptions and bad information about biology and psychology. More privileged lads with strict childhoods never had the opportunity to let their hair down, rebel and mature. Many grown men continue to engage in braggadocio because they were forced to spend their childhood (and the rest of their life) on the golf course instead of the street corner (which was transformative).
Trump offers little to the women or men of this country because of his own immaturity. Ironically, Clinton has spent her adult life defending and using the same kind of man. She promotes promiscuity, abortion and sexual license like a Madame looking for higher income. Clinton is trying to force acceptance of decriminalized sexual behaviors through laws and tax support. Her plans are more of a threat to my religious freedom than Trump’s crude private indiscretions.
Trump offers little to the women or men of this country because of his own immaturity. Ironically, Clinton has spent her adult life defending and using the same kind of man. She promotes promiscuity, abortion and sexual license like a Madame looking for higher income. Clinton is trying to force acceptance of decriminalized sexual behaviors through laws and tax support. Her plans are more of a threat to my religious freedom than Trump’s crude private indiscretions.
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There was one thing that Trump was probably factually correct about. And that is that Bill Clinton had said things to him on the golf course that were allot worse. It would also not be unfair to assume that Clinton too was referring to actions of his, just as Trump was.
And the fact is that if a recording of Clinton talking that same manner of "locker room talk" came to light, or if somebody that had heard him speaking that way decided to tell the public about it, we would not as a nation completely reassess who Clinton is and was, or retroactively downgrade his whole presidency. In fact since these revelations would not be in regard to a presidential candidate they would not even be major news, as it would not come as a surprise to most people.
And the same is true about Trump. That while it merits being "major news" to be discussed and dissected by the media because of its relevance to the presidential race, most people are not all surprised by it at all. Just about anyone who hears of this views it as as a story about a recording surfacing at one of the worst possible moments in what is the game of the race for president.
That the significance this holds for most Americans is all in the recording being discovered is a game changer in an exciting competition that has the nation is focused on. This is quite similar to an interception in an important and close football game in the 4th quarter.
And the fact is that if a recording of Clinton talking that same manner of "locker room talk" came to light, or if somebody that had heard him speaking that way decided to tell the public about it, we would not as a nation completely reassess who Clinton is and was, or retroactively downgrade his whole presidency. In fact since these revelations would not be in regard to a presidential candidate they would not even be major news, as it would not come as a surprise to most people.
And the same is true about Trump. That while it merits being "major news" to be discussed and dissected by the media because of its relevance to the presidential race, most people are not all surprised by it at all. Just about anyone who hears of this views it as as a story about a recording surfacing at one of the worst possible moments in what is the game of the race for president.
That the significance this holds for most Americans is all in the recording being discovered is a game changer in an exciting competition that has the nation is focused on. This is quite similar to an interception in an important and close football game in the 4th quarter.
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Anyone actually surprised?
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I have 6 daughters.
In my house, he would be classified by those in their teens and older as a "creeper", and someone to stay away from.
Hope the republicans are satisfied with their pick to lead the country now.
Just another example of power, greed and demeaning comments towards a gender or race by a dirtbag with money.
In my house, he would be classified by those in their teens and older as a "creeper", and someone to stay away from.
Hope the republicans are satisfied with their pick to lead the country now.
Just another example of power, greed and demeaning comments towards a gender or race by a dirtbag with money.
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It should be explained to Ms. Ayotte running for re-election in New Hampshire, that stating that you are voting for Trump is in of itself an endorsement for Trump. It's the ultimate endorsement. Actions speak louder than words, as they say.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't have it both ways.
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I have a hard time understanding what distinguishes this sad episode from the rest of Trump's campaign. Is it the timing? Is it because it's a recorded message and not something he said live? Is this supposed to puncture his "image" of a megalomaniac who knows what he's doing and is in control? Is it because he mentions female genitalia? Trump is the end of the Republicans' slippery slope, but I'm not sure where the bottom actually lies. Is there a bottom?
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I've played sports my entire life. I've been in locker rooms thousands of times. I don't know what Trump means when he says, "locker room banter." I can honestly say that I never heard anyone, in any locker room, speak on this level of incredible immaturity.
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With Donald Trump leading rallies of thousands and thousands cheering, let us not be surprised when young men find themselves in courtrooms after they have touched young women without the women's permission.
After all, those young men might think they are stars too.
After all, those young men might think they are stars too.
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Wikileaked transcripts or nuggets of Hillary's speeches to GS and DBD, anyone? That is more juicy than the braggadocios, high-school kid talk on scoring with girls.
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Hey Guiliani what justification are you going to give this -- because having heard you ad nauseum spewing hate-filled comments for the last few months, you surely are going to spin this or try to!! Let me guess 1) Hillary is worse because she flunked her bar exam in Washington (one of your revelations) 2) Hillary's behaviour against the women Bill was unfaithful with was FAR worse than poor little Donny, just acting like the red blooded all American male that he is 3) hey its not important vs the Important work he is doing to make America great again like - frankly nothing comes to mind.
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Some people keep saying that this was a private conversation. Let's set aside for a moment what was actually said, though it is indefensible. This was not two guys telling dirty jokes at a bar. This was a professional environment. Everyone was there doing a job, even Trump. This was a workplace. I can't imagine having such a discussion with a client or coworker (Bush), especially about another coworker (the actress/victim). What a hellish place, the mind of Trump!
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Enough is enough. Trump is the Hindenburg candidate.
And having watched this tragedy unfold slowly, steadily, and inexorably to this inevitable point, I will savor every moment of the Republican Party's crashing and burning.
And having watched this tragedy unfold slowly, steadily, and inexorably to this inevitable point, I will savor every moment of the Republican Party's crashing and burning.
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I am deeply offended not only by Trump's behavior but by the lack of moral leadership coming from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. These leaders have had plenty of direct contact with Trump and have seen him time and time again disparage woman and others; yet, they continue to support him for the highest office in the land. Paul and Mitch, do you have any moral backbone?
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The GOP has had many opportunities to recapture some semblance of respectability since trump won the nomination. Sadly, they have continued to support the single most vile candidates since, perhaps, well, ever. Trump has now given them what is perhaps their last opportunity to right an otherwise sinking ship. Will any of them have the character to finally repudiate Trump? Somehow I doubt it.
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Trump admits that he serially commits acts constituting sexual battery (243.4 PC) in California (and similar offenses in all other states).
Conviction of misdemeanor sexual battery here (and probably elsewhere) mandates lifetime registration as a sex offender. Imagine: a person who -- by his own admission -- should be a registered sex offender living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Conviction of misdemeanor sexual battery here (and probably elsewhere) mandates lifetime registration as a sex offender. Imagine: a person who -- by his own admission -- should be a registered sex offender living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
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You should not have watered down Trump's exact words because they are much more coarse and vulgar. And you should have linked to the video. Hearing it leaves an emotional impression that a sanitized paraphrase does not. I am convinced that Trump should be taken at his word and he didn't just talk about grabbing a beautiful woman he has just met by the pussy if he wanted to. He did it. And many woman have had that sort of uninvited, unwelcomed disrespect visited on them by a man and the recollection would make you sick. If you were a man. Get past thinking what a thrill it might be if a sweet young lady did this to you. Imagine a linebacker feeling you up. Don't sanitize this and don't let him get a boys will be boys pass. If he is elected, he won't be the president of just boys. And he won't just be playing with a rich dude's power. You must have wives, daughter, sisters, mothers? This is not just pandering to the base. This is base.
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His inner circle can spin this anyway they want and Trump can say whatever he wants but there is no dodging the facts. I couldn't help wondering why this video was any different than the multitude of other statements he has regularly made about women. Was it the use of the word "pussy" or the very graphic picture that it evokes of him crotch-grabbing your daughter, your wife, your mother, or your grandmother?
There is no apologizing for this at the age of 70. When will people realize that the video clip is who he is...there is no changing the true nature of a person at this late stage.
And he still thinks he is running against Bill Clinton, someone should remind him he is running against a woman.
There is no apologizing for this at the age of 70. When will people realize that the video clip is who he is...there is no changing the true nature of a person at this late stage.
And he still thinks he is running against Bill Clinton, someone should remind him he is running against a woman.
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The title is "The Sleaziness of Donald Trump" and yet you shy away from reporting just how sleazy he really is by not quoting his exact words. Why the puritanical editing? He did not say he could grab women between their legs. Trump's exact words were "Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." So report it. Pussy, he said pussy and the American people and the world have a right to know exactly what he said and exactly what kind of man the Republican party backs for the highest office in the land.
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Just for few minutes, stop and ponder the words he said, and the actions of his those words describe. That Mr. Trump feels entitled, due to his "star" status to "grab them by the pussy" when he meets a woman. Saying "I don't even wait" and that he can "do anything".
Imagine introducing your 18 year old daughter to this 70 year old man (60 at the time of this tape) and knowing he feels entitled to "grab her pussy" just because he wants to. Imagine introducing your sister to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy". Imagine introducing your wife to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy". Imagine introducing your mother to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy" - if she is deemed attractive/grab-worthy to him. Imagine this man seeing all attractive women women who cross his path as his targets to "grab their pussy" if he feels so inclined.
Just imagine this. Ponder this.
Imagine introducing your 18 year old daughter to this 70 year old man (60 at the time of this tape) and knowing he feels entitled to "grab her pussy" just because he wants to. Imagine introducing your sister to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy". Imagine introducing your wife to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy". Imagine introducing your mother to him and he feels entitled to "grab her pussy" - if she is deemed attractive/grab-worthy to him. Imagine this man seeing all attractive women women who cross his path as his targets to "grab their pussy" if he feels so inclined.
Just imagine this. Ponder this.
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Well, of course, none of the members of the NY Times Editorial Board has ever said anything similar in an unguarded moment. And no journalist, whether in the newspaper world or who works in television, has ever said something similar.
And George Clooney, before he got married, never ever said anything about the constant parade of women "Gee, I'd really like to get into her mind."
And, most especially, no woman has ever, ever made an observation of a similar nature about a man they find attractive.
Donald Trump is the ONLY one who has done this type of talking. The ONLY one.
And George Clooney, before he got married, never ever said anything about the constant parade of women "Gee, I'd really like to get into her mind."
And, most especially, no woman has ever, ever made an observation of a similar nature about a man they find attractive.
Donald Trump is the ONLY one who has done this type of talking. The ONLY one.
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And we are moving from Obama to this?
Somehow, hope and change has turned into mistrust and insanity.
Somehow, hope and change has turned into mistrust and insanity.
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Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are constructing for themselves an enduring legacy of shame. They are both cowardly and craven in their continuing indefensible endorsements of Trump as the GOP presidential nominee even as the GOP is cratering in the polls and Trump's campaign management is flailing into disarray. The voyage of the rest of their political lives will be bound in shallows and in miseries.
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The Times defends the right of women to sexually control their bodies and that government politics should not be in our bedrooms. But as we read your moralizing to condemn Donald Trump for his sleaze, we read in hacked emails below the report of Hillary Clinton's assurances to big money interests to defend their predatory financial dealings against the interest of the middle classes. And there is no mention of Bill Clinton's sexually sleaziness. What hypocrisy!
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"But Bill Clinton! But JFK! But boys will be boys!"
Enough with the false equivalency, Trump supporters. This is not apples to apples. This is apples to sewage.
Take a good look at your daughter, your mother, your wife, your sister, your coworker...and now imagine Trump sexually assaulting her because he said "when your famous, they let you do anything."
Is this who you want as President?
Enough with the false equivalency, Trump supporters. This is not apples to apples. This is apples to sewage.
Take a good look at your daughter, your mother, your wife, your sister, your coworker...and now imagine Trump sexually assaulting her because he said "when your famous, they let you do anything."
Is this who you want as President?
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Ah, the ironies and paradoxes of American political 'science.'
Our political landscape has officially degenerated into the cesspool of intellectual/ethical impotence to the point of psychosis.
And yet, as much as we'd all like to bail out, tumbling through the crisp air of reason, ripcord in hand, this proves to be the most important choice moving forward we've ever had to make.
Is this REALLY the direction we want our children to walk in??? As appalled as we all love to believe we are, is the corrective action really there? After all, we wouldn't even be discussing this had the Frowning Fascist been cut off at the pass. And there were plenty of opportunities early on....
...yet, there's less than a hand's worth of percentage points separating minority populist stupidity/psychosis, with reason/decency.
We have 4 weeks to secure a "movement" of our own, and it has to be more than Twitter/FB. Those are forums, NOT movements.
Our political landscape has officially degenerated into the cesspool of intellectual/ethical impotence to the point of psychosis.
And yet, as much as we'd all like to bail out, tumbling through the crisp air of reason, ripcord in hand, this proves to be the most important choice moving forward we've ever had to make.
Is this REALLY the direction we want our children to walk in??? As appalled as we all love to believe we are, is the corrective action really there? After all, we wouldn't even be discussing this had the Frowning Fascist been cut off at the pass. And there were plenty of opportunities early on....
...yet, there's less than a hand's worth of percentage points separating minority populist stupidity/psychosis, with reason/decency.
We have 4 weeks to secure a "movement" of our own, and it has to be more than Twitter/FB. Those are forums, NOT movements.
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Just a few days ago the NY Times (certainly no enemy of Hillary) published an investigation that revealed how Hillary actively encouraged and participated in the destruction of several womens reputations when they had the courage to come forward and report her husbands sexual assaults upon them. Now a tape is leaked of Trump engaging in repulsive locker room banter. It still appears that although Trump has SAID terrible things, Hillary has DONE terrible things. Big difference.
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Honestly, is anyone surprised? He does say how much he loves women. Can't wait for the positive spin. Wonder how the Trumplets and Melania will come to his defense on this one?
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Do women have conversations like this too?
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What frightens me the most, as a 69 year old woman who has heard all of this from men not running for president, all of my life, is that it reflects a continuing, deep mysogyny in this country and we women are surrounded by it, every day of our lives. And yes, it is hidden behind fake behavior to our faces, as it was in the transcript while behind our backs they demean us. It frightens me that men are not the only mysogynists either. The women standing behind Trump screaming in approval at his rallies are enablers and just as guilty of dragging this country publicly into the gutter.
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Men often talk like this. I used to talk like this. But I outgrew it sometime around the time I fell in love with my wife. I think that's true of most men, but not Donald. Perhaps he's never really fallen in love with anyone except himself.
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The scariest comment he made was. I'm a star. I can do anything. Substitute president for star. Frightening. Also, his apologies are lame.
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Real Men will not vote for Trump.
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this man cant even issue an apology correctly.......to wit: IF anyone was offended...........no Donald, not IF anyone was offended.............you've only offended half the world's population! (women)........you should have used the conjunction "BECAUSE"
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His favorability rating among the deplorables just went up another five percentage points.
If someone comes forth with a video tape of an actual groping it'll go up another ten.
If someone comes forth with a video tape of an actual groping it'll go up another ten.
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Has he gone too far, at last?
Isn't that the question on most reasonable minds this morning? But who knows? It seems our standards have fallen impossibly low. There is something deeply wrong with our country. It's a sad thing to watch.
It seems that Trump will, rightly, lose the White House. (Thank goodness.) But he has done irreparable harm to our country. A sexual predator, tax dodger, and bigot -- a serious contender for the highest office. Who are we?
Isn't that the question on most reasonable minds this morning? But who knows? It seems our standards have fallen impossibly low. There is something deeply wrong with our country. It's a sad thing to watch.
It seems that Trump will, rightly, lose the White House. (Thank goodness.) But he has done irreparable harm to our country. A sexual predator, tax dodger, and bigot -- a serious contender for the highest office. Who are we?
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As a detached observer, and a very bemused Englishman, I find it appalling that so many senior figures in the Republican party are condoning the sexist, racist and offensive behaviour of this ignorant and arrogant bully by not speaking out against him. Have they no moral compass? Trump has shown, repeatedly, that he is unfit for the office of President, yet senior Republicans, by ignoring the blindingly obvious, and tying themselves into knots by trying to convince themselves that he's a creditable candidate, are proving to be little better than he is.
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And you know it's the type of the iceberg....
Where there is smoke there is fire.
The leopard doesn't change his spots.
Think of all the things your granny said to you about people who did not know how to act right.
They are all true!
Where there is smoke there is fire.
The leopard doesn't change his spots.
Think of all the things your granny said to you about people who did not know how to act right.
They are all true!
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Between having just finished Jean Edward Smith's brilliant biography of George W Bush, a man colossally unprepared and unsuited for the US presidency, and noting Trump's latest self-immolative expositions of sleaze, I wonder anew at how the GOP finds fault with Barack Obama, a sincere and intelligent family man who better represents Republican 'core' values than any candidate in recent memory.
More than ever, but particularly after this year's campaign, history will certainly judge Obama as the mature and reasonable adult in the room. He will be missed.
More than ever, but particularly after this year's campaign, history will certainly judge Obama as the mature and reasonable adult in the room. He will be missed.
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Can we at least agree that the President should be a grown up?
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"Gov. Mike Pence, you are proud to be a Christian conservative. Is this a man you would want at your dinner table, let alone in the Oval Office?" Gov. Pence wouldn't have wanted the ruthless, murderous Paul of Christianity's early days at his table; that is - until Paul became St. Paul after his "Road to Damascus" experience.
It's Christian to forgive and believe that people can exchange. Trump says he has and that he is not the same as he was a decade ago. Why can't that be accepted? Why isn't it true? Why doesn't the NYTimes stick to the issues?
It's Christian to forgive and believe that people can exchange. Trump says he has and that he is not the same as he was a decade ago. Why can't that be accepted? Why isn't it true? Why doesn't the NYTimes stick to the issues?
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Let's face it - Trump's a trust fund baby that has abused people throughout his life, especially those with less. Now we can add sexual predator to The Donald's long list of of misanthropic deeds. I am surprised that anyone is surprised about this latest revelation. When one lacks character, integrity and humanity their every human interaction is tainted by the lack and their lives are a trail of destruction - of others.
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Americans do have some difficulties and they are at times too bigot to admit these. Trump made those comments in what seemed a bus load of men going to the studios and isn't that an occasion to "show off" in a very old fashioned masculine way (heck Trump's age places him as an oap). Evidently he's from a generation that was taught that to behave like that among men was oh so masculine. Remember America exported such things , together with the good, to the world little realizing how hated they were for it, through multinational firms and big cooperations, films etc. and they still do. But very few of those bosses have ever been beseiged like Trump has been for exactly the same thing. Are there 2 weights and 2 measures? The White House being purer than multinationals, banks, IMF, etc.etc.? Come on America less bigotry and more appropriate education.
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The fund to send Trump to Moscow is open and invites your participation. He'll fit right in there.
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You are expecting the GOP oligarchy to take a conservative Christian moral position that is too much to ask, they are Politicians not morality police remember, religion is just a tool for votes.
If you wouldn't allow a person to be alone with your daughter or wife, you cannot allow him to be President.
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