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Dear Trump Supporters: You Lost The Right To Smear Biden When You Voted For A Sexual Predator

  

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Via:  don-overton  •  5 years ago  •  241 comments

Dear Trump Supporters: You Lost The Right To Smear Biden When You Voted For A Sexual Predator
The MAGA mob can get back to us when they disavow Trump, an actual sexual predator

S E E D E D   C O N T E N T



Donald Trump and his supporters are having a field day in response to the news that former vice president Joe Biden’s affectionate style of politicking has made a handful of women uncomfortable over the years.

While these women aren’t alleging sexual assault, they do have the right to come forward and share any type of behavior that made them feel violated. It’s a demonstration of just how much progress society has made that women feel empowered to speak out on such issues.

In response, Biden has said he hears these women loud and clear. He acknowledged that he has a responsibility to change his behavior and that he plans to meet that responsibility.

Of course, none of that kept Donald Trump’s supporters from waging a full-on assault on the former vice president.

In recent days, the MAGA mob has flooded social media with pictures of Biden hugging female supporters over the years, as if they were showing us newly unearthed footage for the first time.

They’ve even started employing the hashtag #CreepyJoe, clearly taking their name-calling cues from the third-grader living in the White House.

Trump himself has even joined in on the action, posting a doctored video on Twitter of Joe Biden massaging his own shoulders. It’s disturbing in its own right that the same man who posted this video is also in charge of the nation’s nuclear codes.

But what’s most stunning is not Trump supporters’ juvenile attacks on Joe Biden. Given the maturity level of their leader, this is to be expected.

What’s shocking is the utter shamelessness of their hypocrisy. It is mind boggling that the backers of this president have the nerve to attack anyone else – Joe Biden or otherwise – on these grounds.


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Sparty On
Professor Principal
1  Sparty On    5 years ago

I love it when someone tells me i've lost a right for this inane reason or that.  

It's usually so ...... Kafkaesque .... gotta love the party of inclusion though.  

Oh yeah!

 
 
 
Snuffy
Professor Participates
1.1  Snuffy  replied to  Sparty On @1    5 years ago

Seems I see more on the right laughing at the hypocrisy of the left in excusing Biden when they were quite rabid in attacking Kavanaugh during the hearings. I don't care to much about it myself,  wasn't planning on voting for Biden even if he runs.  But I do laugh when it comes to the party (and followers) defending their own while attacking the other side over similar issues.

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.1.1  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Snuffy @1.1    5 years ago

Read the article and learn a little

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.1.2  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Snuffy @1.1    5 years ago

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Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Sparty On @1    5 years ago
I love it when someone tells me i've lost a right for this inane reason or that

I guess some people don't see hypocrisy as a bad thing, and this is an opinion, not a law banning you from being a hypocrite so you're welcome to both support a serial adulterer and 19 times accused sexual predator Donald Trump while also throwing stones at Biden for awkwardly kissing the back of some woman's head or making someone feel a bit uncomfortable. No one is stopping you.

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
1.2.1  Sparty On  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2    5 years ago

Well i'm not really a good example for your little rant since i'm not smearing Biden.   But then again i didn't smear Thomas or Kavanaugh either with highly biased, partisan hypocrisy like you probably did.   Now i did give it to Bubba with both barrels.   He sat in front of the American people and lied his ass off right to our faces.    His pants were beyond on fire ..... they were already smoke!

If i ever golf with Bubba, i'm keeping score.   Of course i hear the same is true for Trump.   Interestingly Trump takes shit for it today and Bubba never did.   Not from the people giving Trump shit today that is.

More left wing hypocrisy on parade.   Gives us your best parade wave will you?

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.2.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Sparty On @1.2.1    5 years ago
He sat in front of the American people and lied his ass off right to our faces.    His pants were beyond on fire ..... they were already smoke!

Yet compared to the mountain of lies that have come out of Trumps lie hole in the last two years, "Bubba" would be considered a Saint. The only reason Trumps pants weren't on fire is because they are made of asbestos and his entire body has been fire treated. Side effects of the fire retardant are orange skin and severe brain damage.

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
1.2.3  Sunshine  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.2    5 years ago

Lemme guess, "He's not your President".  

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
1.2.4  cobaltblue  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2    5 years ago
No one is stopping you.

Yeah, they voted for a guy who verbally, several times, admitted he found his own daughter scintillating. He's said on more than one occasion he'd like to 'date' her. He's talked about grabbing pussy, kissing women without their permission, a guy took his then-mistress on a skiing vacation where his wife and children were present, he slept with a porn star without a condom shortly after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife, and all of a sudden they're judging who's a perv. As far as Kavanaugh is concerned, I wasn't sure if he was the creepy perv he was accused of being, but I sure as hell knew his temperament was not Supreme Court material. He cried, he over-emoted ... he was behaving the way sexists speak of women. As far as I was concerned, Kavanaugh was ovary-acting. 

Hypocrisy is the name of the game for some right leaners. Not all. But we all know who has the most impotent commentary. 

 
 
 
Rmando
Sophomore Silent
1.2.5  Rmando  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2    5 years ago

"support a serial adulterer and 19 times accused sexual predator"

Trump could be accused 1900 times and it wouldn't matter as long as the evidence is absolutely nothing but anecdotes with no facts. Just because somebody is controversial enough to bring out political motivated accusers proves nothing by itself.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.2.7  epistte  replied to  Rmando @1.2.5    5 years ago
Trump could be accused 1900 times and it wouldn't matter as long as the evidence is absolutely nothing but anecdotes with no facts. Just because somebody is controversial enough to bring out political motivated accusers proves nothing by itself.

Such as his ex-wife in a divorce in 1990?  

 
 
 
Rmando
Sophomore Silent
1.2.8  Rmando  replied to  epistte @1.2.7    5 years ago

His ex wives have recanted any stories they told about him.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.2.9  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Rmando @1.2.5    5 years ago
Trump could be accused 1900 times and it wouldn't matter as long as the evidence is absolutely nothing but anecdotes with no facts

You like to bring up Bubba, yet there were zero "facts" to back up the four accusations against him, so why the double standard now? There were four women who accused "Bubba" of sexual misconduct, Juanita Broadderick, Paula Jones, Leslie Millwee and Kathleen Willey. None had any physical evidence or recorded evidence of any actual misconduct, it was their word against his. Now I, for one, believed them and still do, regardless of the fact that they had no physical evidence and the accusation of actual rape made by Juanita Broadderick was later recanted.

Now, you can't be saying, that Trump is pure as the driven snow simply because all the accusations against him are their word against his, right? You don't think Trump is some sort of Saint who's being wrongly accused do you? He said "I don't even wait" on that Hollywood Access tape, what do you think he was saying he doesn't wait for?

"You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything." - Donald J Trump in his own words.

So now that we've established that he's a disgusting pig and has actually admitted to sexually assaulting women, what's so hard to believe about the 19 women who came forward to confirm his own words?

Now we all know how the right, and the left, would be reacting if a tape surfaced of Biden saying those exact same words, "You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.", we wouldn't be having a debate as to whether Biden should run or not, it would be seen by all as automatically disqualifying. But not in Trumplandia where up is down, left is wrong, white is right, ignorance and ridicule of higher education is "smart" and an accusation of sexual assault against a Democrat is to be believed and an accusation against a republican disbelieved regardless of the evidence.

I agree with you, Bill Clinton was a piece of shit as a man. Not to bad a President, but a terrible husband who I believe did assault those women and I did not vote for him at the time because of it. What I can't understand, is what all that has to do with Donald Trump. Does Bills actions make Trump any less of a piece of shit? Does Bill's infidelities have anything to do with the numerous affairs (Trump cheated on all three wives), porn star payoffs and 19 victims of sexual assault who have accused Trump? Of course not, none of what Bill did excuses what Trump has done. Yet every time Trumps accusers are brought up, "Poof!" like magic some half-wit apologist is coming to Trumps defense with "But, but, but Clinton did some of that stuff too!".

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.2.10  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Rmando @1.2.8    5 years ago
His ex wives have recanted any stories they told about him

So Trump and Bubba have that in common as well, both have been accused of rape but the accusers later recanted their accusations.

 
 
 
Rmando
Sophomore Silent
1.2.11  Rmando  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.10    5 years ago

Except Juanita Brodderick took back her recanting and still claims Clinton raped her.

 
 
 
Rmando
Sophomore Silent
1.2.12  Rmando  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.9    5 years ago

It should be noted that you're the one bringing up Clinton, not me. But if you want to keep bringing up the Access Hollywood tape and all the accusations most voters don't even remember or care about then go ahead. It's all old news and Trump won in spite of it. Voters in 2020 are going to want some new material instead of a rehash of 2016.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
Professor Quiet
1.2.14  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Rmando @1.2.12    5 years ago
It should be noted that you're the one bringing up Clinton, not me.

Actually that was Sparty On who brought Bubba into this thread, I simply noted out how ridiculous a thing that is. I suppose pointing out conservative Republicans are hypocrites is like going around telling everyone you just found out water was wet.

 
 
 
Rmando
Sophomore Silent
1.2.15  Rmando  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.14    5 years ago

The only hypocrisy I see is that for twenty years all I heard about Bill and Monica was that it a consensual matter between two adults. Exactly what happened between Trump and Stormy Daniels. I'd say it's the other way around and Dems have no room to talk after defending Bill for so long.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.2.16  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Sunshine @1.2.3    5 years ago
"Lemme guess, "He's not your President"."

I think I'm one of very few people on this site who can say that without lying.

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.2.17  tomwcraig  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.2    5 years ago

So, when has Trump had sex with a White House intern?  The evidence of Bill Clinton sexually harassing the women around him was there for all to see because of Monica Lewinsky.  Regardless of whether it was consensual or not, he was still in a position of power over her and as such AUTOMATICALLY committed sexual harassment.  And, part of what makes the women that accused Bill Clinton believable was the fact that it was established by his actions regarding Lewinsky that it fit the pattern that those women claimed in their accusations.  So, unlike Kavanaugh and Trump, Bill Clinton's accusers had actual physical evidence of their claims despite how old the actual incidents were in comparison to Lewinsky's affair with Bill Clinton.

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
1.2.18  Sparty On  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @1.2.2    5 years ago

Yeah a mountain of lies, most of them made up and/or hoped for by a butt hurt media/far left wing crackpot platoon.

So bubba is a feminists best buddy right?   You rationalize he's somehow "better" because you say he lied ..... less?   Hilarious!

This is simple, bubba gets a pass because he's a Dem.   Trump doesn't get a pass because he's a Rep and he had the temerity to beat the Dems/medias rotten old chosen one.   It's no more complicated than that.

Your comment drips of the hypocrisy that is the liberal left wing.   Drip, drip, drip ....

 
 
 
GaJenn78
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1.2.20  GaJenn78  replied to  cobaltblue @1.2.4    5 years ago

Ok, none of those things were said verbatim, and you have taking it way out of contex. He said she was beautiful and IF, she WERNT his daughter, she would be someone he would date....., He never said he kissed anyone without permission, he said he could, and not many people know, he divorced Marla because SHE cheated, but keep getting your info from "IN Touch" mag or CNN, or whatever popular rag is at the checkout these days. As far as Kavanaugh, poor guy was just trying to take up for him self.  He cried because he was being accused, and how exactly do  sexists speak while taking up for themselves? I've been to court before with an asshole who violated me....the guy never acted the way K did.... Just saying... But thats just me...And I guess my story doesn't matter because I believed K..... according to some on here, I would be a "fucking liar" just like the girl who accused Biden.... what eves.... I'm use to it.....

 
 
 
GaJenn78
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1.2.21  GaJenn78  replied to  GaJenn78 @1.2.20    5 years ago

Going to bed now, I've had a rough afternoon with angry patients and docs not wanting to deal with them. I've been wrung out and hung to dry by some off these patients.... most I can sympathize with, 2 today... were just mean ole bats who thought I could just tip tap on my keyboard to get their rx or referrals..... thats what they actually said...." just click click and make it happen". I'm sorry, but Dr. X said this......, they werent having it.....  Back at it tomorrow..... YAY

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.2.22  Texan1211  replied to  GaJenn78 @1.2.20    5 years ago

Come on, Jenn, you know the actual facts never matter when it comes to Trump-bashing.

TDS reigns supreme in some!

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.2.23  Tessylo  replied to  cobaltblue @1.2.4    5 years ago
'Yeah, they voted for a guy who verbally, several times, admitted he found his own daughter scintillating. He's said on more than one occasion he'd like to 'date' her. He's talked about grabbing pussy, kissing women without their permission, a guy took his then-mistress on a skiing vacation where his wife and children were present, he slept with a porn star without a condom shortly after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife, and all of a sudden they're judging who's a perv. As far as Kavanaugh is concerned, I wasn't sure if he was the creepy perv he was accused of being, but I sure as hell knew his temperament was not Supreme Court material. He cried, he over-emoted ... he was behaving the way sexists speak of women. As far as I was concerned, Kavanaugh was ovary-acting. 

Hypocrisy is the name of the game for some right leaners. Not all. But we all know who has the most impotent commentary.'

Trump has no room to call Joe Biden, or anyone else “creepy.”

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Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
1.2.24  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Sunshine @1.2.3    5 years ago

Let me guess you don't care if he's a sexual predator.  Only if it's a democrat 

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
1.2.25  seeder  Don Overton  replied to    5 years ago

Can you prove anything you just said Wally or is it just out of the trump playbook

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
1.2.26  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Rmando @1.2.15    5 years ago

Not what she says

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.2.27  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  tomwcraig @1.2.17    5 years ago

You just don't know if he has but it's most likely

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.2.28  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Sparty On @1.2.18    5 years ago

Prove your comment 

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.2.29  tomwcraig  replied to  Don Overton @1.2.27    5 years ago

Okay, where's the evidence Trump has done so?

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
1.2.30  Sparty On  replied to  Don Overton @1.2.28    5 years ago

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Ed-NavDoc
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1.2.31  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Sparty On @1.2.30    5 years ago

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Sparty On
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1.2.32  Sparty On  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @1.2.31    5 years ago

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Don Overton
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1.2.33  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Sparty On @1.2.32    5 years ago

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Sparty On
Professor Principal
1.2.34  Sparty On  replied to  Don Overton @1.2.33    5 years ago

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tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3  tomwcraig  replied to  Sparty On @1    5 years ago

And, they ignore their own lack of authority due to excusing Bill Clinton...

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
1.3.1  Sparty On  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3    5 years ago

SOSDD for the people here doing it.

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.3.2  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3    5 years ago

Carry that comment on a little more and then tell us what you really said

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.3.3  Tessylo  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3    5 years ago

What the fuck does Bill Clinton have to do with this?  For fucks sake.  

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.4  tomwcraig  replied to  Tessylo @1.3.3    5 years ago

The same thing Donald Trump has to do with Biden.  Replace Biden with Trump in the seed's title and you get what you on the left created by defending Bill Clinton despite all the mountains of evidence that he committed sexual harassment and lied about it while under oath.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.5  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.4    5 years ago
The same thing Donald Trump has to do with Biden.  Replace Biden with Trump in the seed's title and you get what you on the left created by defending Bill Clinton despite all the mountains of evidence that he committed sexual harassment and lied about it while under oath.

When did Clinton say that he will grab a woman by the genitals and that they wanted it. His affair with Monica was consensual.   He never made sexual remarks about Chelsea.

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.6  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.5    5 years ago

So, you would rather excuse Bill Clinton's ACTIONS while condemning Trump's WORDS, got it.  You need to remember the old adage: "Actions speak louder than words." and apply it to here.

 
 
 
Don Overton
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1.3.7  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.6    5 years ago

Tom Trump has shown what his actions are. Runin the forests and mountains, create toxic water, are among some along with the following.  Are they enough for you Tom or do you need more

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2019

Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s “the least racist person.” His history suggests otherwise.

GettyImages-831968068.0.0.0.jpg President Donald Trump at a press conference.   Drew Angerer/Getty Images

If you ask President Donald Trump, he isn’t racist. To the contrary, he’s repeatedly   said   that he’s “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.”

Trump’s actual record, however, tells a very different story.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly made explicitly racist and otherwise bigoted remarks, from calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists to proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US to suggesting a judge should recuse himself from a case solely because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.

The trend has continued into his presidency. From stereotyping a black reporter to   pandering to white supremacists   after they held a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to   cracking a joke about the Trail of Tears , Trump hasn’t stopped with the racist acts after his 2016 election.

In fact, the   very first time   that Trump appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination. Since then, he has repeatedly appeared in newspaper pages across the world as he inspired more similar controversies.

This long history is important. It would be one thing if Trump simply misspoke one or two times. But when you take all of Trump’s actions and comments together, a clear pattern emerges — one that suggests that bigotry is not just political opportunism on Trump’s part but a real element of Trump’s personality, character, and career.

Trump has a long history of racist controversies

Here’s a breakdown of Trump’s history, taken largely from   Dara Lind’s list for Vox   and an   op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times :

  • 1973:   The US Department of Justice — under the Nixon administration, out of all administrations —   sued   the Trump Management Corporation for violating the Fair Housing Act. Federal officials found   evidence   that Trump had refused to rent to black tenants and lied to black applicants about whether apartments were available, among other accusations. Trump said the federal government was trying to get him to rent to welfare recipients. In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before.
  • 1980s:   Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another one of Trump’s businesses of discrimination. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” Brown   said . “It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.”
  • 1988:   In a commencement speech at Lehigh University, Trump   spent much of his speech accusing countries like Japan of “stripping the United States of economic dignity.” This matches much of his current rhetoric on China.
  • 1989:   In a controversial case that’s been characterized as a modern-day lynching, four black teenagers and one Latino teenager — the “Central Park Five” — were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in New York City. Trump immediately took charge in the case, running   an ad in local papers   demanding, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!” The teens’ convictions were later vacated after they spent   seven to 13 years in prison , and the city paid $41 million in a settlement to the teens. But Trump in October 2016   said   he still believes they’re guilty, despite the DNA evidence to the contrary.
  • 1991:   A   book   by John O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump’s criticism of a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in   a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
  • 1992:   The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino   had to pay a $200,000 fine   because it transferred black and women dealers off tables to accommodate a big-time gambler’s prejudices.
  • 1993:   In congressional testimony, Trump   said   that some Native American reservations operating casinos shouldn’t be allowed because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
  • 2000:   In opposition to a casino proposed by the St. Regis Mohawk tribe, which he saw as a financial threat to his casinos in Atlantic City, Trump secretly ran a   series of ads suggesting the tribe had a “record of criminal activity [that] is well documented.”
  • 2004:   In season two of   The Apprentice , Trump   fired   Kevin Allen, a black contestant, for being overeducated. “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything,” Trump said on the show. “At some point you have to say, ‘That’s enough.’”
  • 2005:   Trump   publicly pitched   what was essentially   The Apprentice: White People vs. Black People . He   said   he “wasn’t particularly happy” with the most recent season of his show, so he was considering “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”
  • 2010:   In 2010, there was a huge national controversy over the “Ground Zero Mosque” — a proposal to build a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, near the site of the 9/11 attacks. Trump opposed the project, calling it “insensitive,” and   offered to buy out   one of the investors in the project. On   The Late Show With David Letterman , Trump   argued , referring to Muslims, “Well, somebody’s blowing us up. Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”
  • 2011:   Trump played a   big role   in pushing false rumors that Obama — the country’s first black president — was not born in the US. He even sent investigators to Hawaii to   look into Obama’s birth certificate . Obama later released his birth certificate, calling Trump a   ”carnival barker.”   (The   research   has found a strong correlation between “birtherism,” as this conspiracy theory is called, and racism.) Trump has   reportedly continued   pushing this conspiracy theory in private.
  • 2011:   While Trump suggested that Obama wasn’t born in the US, he also argued that maybe Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School, and demanded Obama release his university transcripts. Trump   claimed , “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”

For many people, none of these incidents, individually, may be totally damning: One of these alone might suggest that Trump is simply a bad speaker and perhaps racially insensitive (“politically incorrect,” as he would put it), but not overtly racist.

But when you put all these events together, a clear pattern emerges. At the very least, Trump has a history of playing into people’s racism to bolster himself — and that likely says something about him too.

And of course, there’s everything that’s happened through and since his presidential campaign.

As a candidate and president, Trump has made many more racist comments

On top of all that history, Trump has repeatedly made racist — often explicitly so — remarks on the campaign trail and as president:

  • Trump launched his campaign in 2015 by   calling   Mexican immigrants “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the US. His campaign was largely built on building a wall to keep these immigrants out of the US.
  • As a candidate in 2015, Trump   called   for a ban on all Muslims coming into the US. His administration eventually implemented a   significantly watered-down version of the policy .
  • When asked at a 2016 Republican debate whether all 1.6 billion Muslims hate the US, Trump   said , “I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them.”
  • He   argued   in 2016 that Judge Gonzalo Curiel — who was overseeing   the Trump University lawsuit   — should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage and membership in a Latino lawyers association. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who endorsed Trump, later   called   such comments “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
  • Trump has been   repeatedly slow   to condemn white supremacists who endorse him, and he   regularly retweeted   messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign.
  • He   tweeted and later deleted   an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” The tweet had some very obvious anti-Semitic imagery, but Trump   insisted   that the star was a sheriff’s badge, and   said   his campaign shouldn’t have deleted it.
  • Trump has   repeatedly referred   to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as “Pocahontas,” using her controversial — and   later walked-back   — claims to Native American heritage as a punchline.
  • At the 2016 Republican convention, Trump officially seized the mantle of   the “law and order” candidate   — an obvious   dog whistle   playing to white fears of black crime, even though crime in the US is   historically low . His   speeches, comments, and executive actions   after he took office have continued this line of messaging.
  • In   a pitch to black voters   in 2016, Trump   said , “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”
  • Trump   stereotyped   a black reporter at a press conference in February 2017. When April Ryan asked him if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”
  • In the week after   white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia , in August 2017, Trump   repeatedly said   that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence and chaos that ensued — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counterprotesters that stood against racism. He also said that there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists. All of this seemed like a dog whistle to white supremacists — and many of them took it as one, with white nationalist Richard Spencer   praising   Trump for “defending the truth.”
  • Throughout 2017, Trump   repeatedly attacked   NFL players who, by kneeling or otherwise silently protesting during the national anthem, demonstrated against systemic racism in America.
  • Trump   reportedly said   in 2017 that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS,” and he lamented that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America. The White House   denied   that Trump ever made these comments.
  • Speaking about immigration in a bipartisan meeting in January 2018, Trump   reportedly asked , in reference to Haiti and African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then reportedly suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway. The implication: Immigrants from predominantly white countries are good, while immigrants from predominantly black countries are bad.
  • Trump   denied   making the “shithole” comments, although some senators present at the meeting   said   they happened. The White House, meanwhile,   suggested   that the comments, like Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests, will play well to his base. The only connection between Trump’s remarks about the NFL protests and his “shithole” comments is race.
  • Trump mocked Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign, again calling her “Pocahontas” in a   tweet   before adding, “See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!” The capitalized “TRAIL” is   seemingly a reference   to the Trail of Tears — a horrific act of ethnic cleansing in the 19th century in which Native Americans were forcibly relocated, causing thousands of deaths.

This list is not comprehensive, instead relying on some of the major examples since Trump announced his candidacy. But once again, there’s a pattern of racism and bigotry here that suggests Trump isn’t just misspeaking; it is who he is.

Are Trump’s actions and comments “racist”? Or are they “bigoted”?

One of the common defenses for Trump is that he’s not necessarily racist, because the Muslim and Mexican people he often targets don’t actually comprise a race.

Disgraced journalist Mark Halperin , for example,   said   as much when Trump argued Judge Curiel should recuse himself from the Trump University case because of his Mexican heritage, making the astute observation that “Mexico isn’t a race.”

Kristof   made a similar point   in the New York Times: “My view is that ‘racist’ can be a loaded word, a conversation stopper more than a clarifier, and that we should be careful not to use it simply as an epithet. Moreover, Muslims and Latinos can be of any race, so some of those statements technically reflect not so much racism as bigotry. It’s also true that with any single statement, it is possible that Trump misspoke or was misconstrued.”

This critique misses the point on two levels.

For one, the argument is tremendously semantic. It’s essentially probing the question: Is Trump   racist   or is he   bigoted ? But who cares? Neither is a trait that anyone should want in a president — and either label essentially communicates the same criticism.

Another issue is that race is socially malleable. Over the years, Americans   considered Germans, Greeks, Irish, Italians, and Spaniards as nonwhite people of different races. That’s changed. Similarly, some Americans today consider Latinos and, to a lesser degree, some people with Muslim and Jewish backgrounds as part of a nonwhite race too. (As a Latino man, I certainly consider myself to be of a different race, and the treatment I’ve received in the course of my life validates that.) So under current definitions, comments against these groups are, indeed, racist.

This is all possible because, as   Jenée Desmond-Harris explained for Vox , race is entirely a social construct with no biological basis. This doesn’t mean race and people’s views of race don’t have real effects on many people — of course they do — but it means that people’s definitions of race can change over time.

But really, whatever you want to call it, Trump has made racist and bigoted comments in the past. That much should be clear in the long lists above.

Trump’s bigotry was a key part of his campaign

Regardless of how one labels it, Trump’s racism or bigotry was a big part of his campaign — by giving a candidate to the many white Americans who harbor racial resentment.

One paper , published in January 2017 by political scientists Brian Schaffner, Matthew MacWilliams, and Tatishe Nteta,   found   that voters’ measures of sexism and racism correlated much more closely with support for Trump than economic dissatisfaction after controlling for factors like partisanship and political ideology.

Trump_support.png Brian Schaffner, Matthew MacWilliams, and Tatishe Nteta

Another study , conducted by researchers Brenda Major, Alison Blodorn, and Gregory Major Blascovich shortly before the 2016 election, found that if people who strongly identified as white were told that nonwhite groups will outnumber white people in 2042, they became more likely to support Trump.

And   a study , published in November 2017 by researchers Matthew Luttig, Christopher Federico, and Howard Lavine, found that Trump supporters were much more likely to change their views on housing policy based on race. In this study, respondents were randomly assigned “a subtle image of either a black or a white man.” Then, they were asked about views on housing policy.

The researchers found that Trump supporters were   much   more likely to be impacted by the image of a black man. After the exposure, they were not only less supportive of housing assistance programs, but they also expressed higher levels of anger that some people receive government assistance, and they were more likely to say that individuals who receive assistance are to blame for their situation.

In contrast, favorability toward Hillary Clinton did not significantly change respondents’ views on any of these issues when primed with racial cues.

“These findings indicate that responses to the racial cue varied as a function of feelings about Donald Trump — but not feelings about Hillary Clinton — during the 2016 presidential election,” the researchers concluded.

There is also a lot of other research showing that people’s racial attitudes can change their views on politics and policy, as   my colleague Dylan Matthews   as well as   researchers Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel   previously explained for Vox.

Simply put, racial attitudes were a big driver behind Trump’s election — just as they long have been for general beliefs about politics and policy. (Much more on all the research in   my explainer .)

Meanwhile, white supremacist groups have openly embraced Trump. As   Sarah Posner and David Neiwert reported at Mother Jones , what the media largely treated as gaffes — Trump retweeting white nationalists, Trump describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and criminals — were to white supremacists real signals approving of their racist causes. One white supremacist   wrote , “Our Glorious Leader and ULTIMATE SAVIOR has gone full-wink-wink-wink to his most aggressive supporters.”

Some of them even argued that Trump has softened the greater public to their racist messaging. “The success of the Trump campaign just proves that our views resonate with millions,” said Rachel Pendergraft, a national organizer for the Knights Party, which succeeded David Duke’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. “They may not be ready for the Ku Klux Klan yet, but as anti-white hatred escalates, they will.”

And at the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, David Duke, the former KKK grand wizard,   said   that the rally was meant “to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”

So while Trump may deny his racism and bigotry, at some level his supporters seem to   get it . As much as his history of racism shows that he’s racist, perhaps who supported him and why is just as revealing — and it doesn’t paint a favorable picture for Trump.

All False statements involving Donald Trump

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epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.8  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.6    5 years ago
So, you would rather excuse Bill Clinton's ACTIONS while condemning Trump's WORDS, got it.  You need to remember the old adage: "Actions speak louder than words." and apply it to here.

How can you compare a consensual affair between 2 adults with his incestuous comments about Ivanka and grab them by the p*****? Did Bill have affairs with porn stars after Chelsea was born? How many times has Bill been remarried?

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.10  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.8    5 years ago

Having affairs and remarrying are completely irrelevant as that does not establish a pattern of action regarding women that one is the boss of or working with.  Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women in 1992.  In the mid-1990s we learned that Bill Clinton, whom was the boss of an intern, had an affair with said intern.  By common decency standards and in the opinion of many legal scholars (refer to sexual harassment policies of companies), Bill Clinton automatically committed sexual harassment regardless of the consensual nature of the affair.  He, then, proceeded to lie about the affair while under oath testifying about the previous sexual harassment accusations against him.

Trump, on the other hand, only has words that you can point to and completely tangential actions that have no bearing on the issue of whether he is a sexual predator or not.  As I keep saying, we have plenty of evidence that Bill Clinton was and is a sexual predator as he committed automatic sexual harassment as President of the United States while being sued for sexual harassment by having an affair with a subordinate.  And, yet, you are still trying to excuse Bill Clinton of being a sexual predator.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.11  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.10    5 years ago

23 women have accused trump of sexual harassment since the 1970s.

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.12  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.11    5 years ago

Until some sort of physical evidence is shown as it was with Bill Clinton, then all you have are words and accusations.  In this day and age, you had better have physical proof to back up your claims due to all of the false accusations out there.

EDIT: Please reference the number of accusers of Brett Kavanaugh whom were later proven to have lied about it.  I am not pointing to Ford, but those that came out after her.  Frankly, most of us believe that something like what she claimed happened to her did happen, but just not with Kavanaugh.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.13  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.12    5 years ago
Until some sort of physical evidence is shown as it was with Bill Clinton, then all you have are words and accusations.  In this day and age, you had better have physical proof to back up your claims due to all of the false accusations out there. EDIT: Please reference the number of accusers of Brett Kavanaugh whom were later proven to have lied about it.  I am not pointing to Ford, but those that came out after her.  Frankly, most of us believe that something like what she claimed happened to her did happen, but just not with Kavanaugh.

Where is your physcial proof of Bill Clinton harassing women, because his affair with Monica was consensual? 

 

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.14  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.12    5 years ago
EDIT: Please reference the number of accusers of Brett Kavanaugh whom were later proven to have lied about it.  I am not pointing to Ford, but those that came out after her.  Frankly, most of us believe that something like what she claimed happened to her did happen, but just not with Kavanaugh.

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.15  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.13    5 years ago

Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress.  Remember what I was saying before.  Clinton AUTOMATICALLY sexually harassed Monica Lewinsky simply by being her boss and having sex with her regardless of it being consensual.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.16  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.15    5 years ago
Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress.  Remember what I was saying before.  Clinton AUTOMATICALLY sexually harassed Monica Lewinsky simply by being her boss and having sex with her regardless of it being consensual.

Monica Lewinsky has stated that it was consensual to the point that she pursued him. 

During this time, Lewinsky flirted with the president and the two had their first sexual encounter on the night of November 15 in the White House. Later that month, she took a paying job in the Office of Legislative Affairs.

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.17  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.14    5 years ago

In the article, it names 3 people who were referred to the DOJ for lying about Kavanaugh: Judy Munro-Leighton (the main person referred to in the article), Julie Swetnik, and Michael Avanetti by name and then an unnamed 4th person.  So, please, tell me where I was wrong about women making up their accusations?

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
1.3.18  sandy-2021492  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.15    5 years ago
being her boss and having sex with her regardless of it being consensual.

You're working with an incorrect definition of sexual harassment.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
1.3.19  arkpdx  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.10    5 years ago

And Billy boy Clinton has been accused by 12 women 

And Joe Biden by at least 4 from what I heard last

 
 
 
tomwcraig
Junior Silent
1.3.20  tomwcraig  replied to  epistte @1.3.16    5 years ago

So?  By having sex with her, it was automatic sexual harassment.  Have you never had sexual harassment policy training at work?  You are to never engage with any sort of sexual relationships with people directly under your management or under the management of someone you manage, because then you can be sued for sexual harassment of that person even if they pursue you or if it is consensual.  That is the entire reason it is automatic sexual harassment committed by Bill Clinton, since he had sex with a subordinate.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
Professor Expert
1.3.21  sandy-2021492  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.20    5 years ago

You are conflating some companies' policies with law.  It is not illegal for a supervisor to have consensual sex with a subordinate.  It is inadvisable, which is why a company may prohibit such activities for its employees, but it is not illegal.

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
1.3.22  epistte  replied to  tomwcraig @1.3.20    5 years ago
So?  By having sex with her, it was automatic sexual harassment.  Have you never had sexual harassment policy training at work?  You are to never engage with any sort of sexual relationships with people directly under your management or under the management of someone you manage, because then you can be sued for sexual harassment of that person even if they pursue you or if it is consensual.  That is the entire reason it is automatic sexual harassment committed by Bill Clinton, since he had sex with a subordinate.

If she pursued him it cannot be sexual harassment. It takes two to tango and she cannot pursue him and then claim that he sexually harassed her when he reciprocates and gives in to her advances. She was a willing adult and knew exactly what she was doing.

Deciding to have a sexual relationship with your boss is normally a bad idea. It can result in problems in the workplace, both with co-workers and with your supervisor, who may just be exploiting you. Things can go especially sour when the sexual relationship stops but the employment relationship continues and the employee suffers retaliation as a result. If the employee feels pressured into having sex to receive workplace favors (or just to be treated like everyone else), it could be considered sexual harassment . Whenever one partner has power over the other at work, the relationship is inherently unequal, and any sexual relations can be seen as nonconsensual. But under sexual harassment law, the focus isn’t so much on typical consent as it is whether advances made by the supervisor were “welcome” by the employee.
 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.4  Tessylo  replied to  Sparty On @1    5 years ago

Trump has no room to call Joe Biden, or anyone else “creepy.”

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Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
3  Sean Treacy    5 years ago

People who support a lying plagiarist like Biden have no right to criticize trump for lying.

Such an easy game to play.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
3.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Sean Treacy @3    5 years ago
People who support a lying plagiarist like Biden have no right to criticize trump for lying.

Actually, Melania is the plagiarist of the family. And Trump is a liar like no other

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
3.1.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  cobaltblue @3.1    5 years ago

Biden lied about his wife getting killed by a drunk driver and plagiarized a speech and a paper in law school.  

  And the response is

But but but...Melania . 

Sad.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
3.1.2  cobaltblue  replied to  Sean Treacy @3.1.1    5 years ago
Sad.

Spare me the faux adjectives. You're smart enough to know the difference. There are two types of Trump supporters. The ones who are as appalled, dismayed, embarrassed and humiliated at the ridiculousness of having a Liar-In-Chief as the rest of us. They pretend to continue to support the Loser-In-Chief in charge of our once respected nation and feign support for such a loser because they think left leaners get pissed off. The days of being pissed off are long past. We are the laughing stock of the world stage. And then there are those who are low intellect, the Jim Jones groupie-types, those who cannot think on their own. I'd prefer to think you're the former, Sean. 

Either way, you may have had a scintilla of a mote of an iota of credibility in 2015. But in 2019, your commentary is laughable. Trumplethinskin's counting on his low intellect base to keep him afloat. He said Mexico was going to pay for the wall ["believe me," he said]. Well, he failed. Miserably. But he knew he could keep his base worked up by puking more bullshit. Forrest Gump had it right. Stupid is as stupid does. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
3.1.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  cobaltblue @3.1.2    5 years ago

Biden is a serial plagiarist who lied about his wife getting killed by a drunk dirver.

spare me your faux outrage about trumps lies.  You are perfectly happy supporting a liar. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
3.1.5  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Sean Treacy @3.1.4    5 years ago

Biden is not POTUS.  The people deserve better than a sexual predictor and serial liar in the Oval Office.

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
3.1.6  Cerenkov  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @3.1.5    5 years ago

I agree but we elected Clinton anyway... 

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
3.1.7  Raven Wing  replied to  Cerenkov @3.1.6    5 years ago
I agree but we elected Clinton anyway... 

And then the Republicans elected Trump, the biggest sexual predator and pervert ever to sit in the Oval office of this country. And they have the gall to accuse others of being stupid.

 
 
 
livefreeordie
Junior Silent
3.1.8  livefreeordie  replied to  Raven Wing @3.1.7    5 years ago

Trump can't hold a candle to Bill Clinton, by far the biggest sexual predator to ever hold office. Trump is a mere exaggerator not one who actually engages in the kind of low life rape and molestation of a Bill Clinton.  Of course you have FDR, LBJ, and JFK who all had mistresses while they were president, but Democrats ignore that incovenient fact.

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
3.2  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Sean Treacy @3    5 years ago

Except you made a false statement

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
3.2.1  arkpdx  replied to  Don Overton @3.2    5 years ago

Where? Legal is false about it? 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
3.2.2  Sean Treacy  replied to  Don Overton @3.2    5 years ago

Please, for once, support your statement. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
4  Paula Bartholomew    5 years ago

Spot on.  The PG in Chief should just STFU.

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
5  Sunshine    5 years ago
Trump himself has even joined in on the action, posting a doctored video on Twitter of Joe Biden massaging his own shoulders. It’s disturbing in its own right that the same man who posted this video is also in charge of the nation’s nuclear codes.

Hilarious...

people get your stick out of your ass.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
5.1  Raven Wing  replied to  Sunshine @5    5 years ago
people get your stick out of your ass.

[Removed]

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.2  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @5    5 years ago
people get your stick out of your ass.

you first

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
5.2.2  Sunshine  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.2    5 years ago
you first

Nah, the big ass should

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.2.3  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @5.2.2    5 years ago

you mean trmp?

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
5.2.4  Sunshine  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.2.3    5 years ago

nope

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.2.5  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @5.2.4    5 years ago

yours?

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
5.2.6  Tessylo  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.2.5    5 years ago

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Sunshine
Professor Quiet
5.2.7  Sunshine  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.2.5    5 years ago

nope

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.2.8  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @5.2.7    5 years ago

I know you don't mean mine because that would very rude of you and we all know you're not rude

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
5.2.9  Sunshine  replied to  Trout Giggles @5.2.8    5 years ago
we all know you're not rude

thanks!

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
5.2.10  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @5.2.9    5 years ago

You're welcome!

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
6  cobaltblue    5 years ago

MAGA: My Attorney Got Arrested

 
 
 
cms5
Freshman Quiet
7  cms5    5 years ago

I don't see anyone 'smearing' Biden...yes, some are having a great time posting memes. Nothing the left hasn't done with glee for the past two years.

When all politicians walk on water and part the seas...then you can tell the 'other' side what they can and cannot do.

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
7.1  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  cms5 @7    5 years ago

Nothing the right hasn't done for the past 10 years

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
7.2  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  cms5 @7    5 years ago
Talk about smear campaigns 
ridget and Cindy McCain at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Scott Olson / Getty Images

Did you know that Barack Obama fathered not just one but two black children? Of course you did. Their names are Malia and Sasha Obama.

Given that Barack Obama was the first black president, this information is hardly scandalous, but substitute Obama’s name with any of his GOP rivals and suddenly that question raises eyebrows. While one famous Republican in recent memory—Strom Thurmond—actually did   father a child of color , other conservatives have been accused of doing so and suffered politically as a result.

While there’s nothing wrong with fathering a   biracial child , spreading rumors that Republican politicians have done so is damaging because portions of the GOP base still disapprove of   miscegenation . Although underhanded political attacks are nothing new, the 21st century has seen a marked rise in race-based smear campaigns—from rumors that white politicians fathered biracial children to accusations of   reverse racism   with no evidence to back up the claims. In recent years, Republicans and Democrats alike have fallen prey to racist   “whispering” campaigns .

John McCain’s Black Daughter

If you lived in South Carolina in the year 2000 when the Republican presidential primary took place, the rumor that McCain fathered a black woman’s child probably isn’t news to you.

During that primary, George W. Bush’s strategist Karl Rove reportedly launched a whispering campaign insinuating that McCain’s adopted daughter from Bangladesh, Bridget, is actually the biological child he had with an African-American.

After the whisper campaign took off, McCain lost the South Carolina primary handily to Bush.

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Barack Obama’s Birthplace

Blame the rumors about Obama’s birthplace and religion on a vile mix of racism and xenophobia. Although Obama is a practicing Christian who was born in Hawaii, a group of conservatives known as birthers refuse to believe this. Instead, they’ve insisted since the 2008 presidential campaign that Obama was born in Kenya.

Never mind that Obama has produced a certificate of live birth from the state of Hawaii, that the   Honolulu Star Bulletin   included his birth announcement in 1961 and that even Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a friend of Obama’s mother, says that he saw the president as a newborn, birthers insist that Obama is lying about his origins.

Why do they make this claim? Because it’s the only way they can argue that this particular black man had no legitimate right to be President of the United States. Rather than state their true beliefs, birthers argue that Obama assumed the presidency illegally and is an anti-American Muslim out to ruin the United States.

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Michelle Obama and Shirley Sherrod Hate White People

Rumors that she was a reverse racist dogged Michelle Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh helped spread this misinformation by remarking that Michelle Obama had been videotaped using the racially charged term whitey. No such tape existed but the rumor that it had provided conservatives with the ammunition to argue that Obama was anti-white.

In 2010, Shirley Sherrod, an African-American official in the U.S. Department of Agriculture experienced a similar smear campaign when conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart doctored a videotape of Sherrod’s appearance at an NAACP event to give the impression that she’d discriminated against white farmers.

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Jan Brewer’s “Headless Body” Excuse for Immigration Crackdown

Unlike the others on this list, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer appears here not as a target of a smear campaign but because of her infamous attempt to justify SB 1070—her state’s controversial legislation to crack down on illegal immigration—by fear mongering about undocumented immigrants.

Arizona became the subject of boycotts in 2010 because its immigration law authorized local law enforcement to investigate suspected undocumented immigrants, which opponents of the law argued would lead to racial profiling. (That section of the law was later struck down in federal court). Defending SB 1070, Brewer remarked that violence along the Arizona-Mexico border was rising, as evidenced by headless bodies found in the area.

In fact, there’s no proof that headless bodies had been found in the borderlands. Arizona coroners in the region reportedly found no decapitated corpses. Brewer later retracted the statement, but her mischaracterization of border violence helped her defeat her opponent in the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race.

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Jon Huntsman Is Chinese

Former 2012 Republican presidential contender Jon Huntsman isn’t actually Chinese, but he can speak Mandarin and has lived in Asia on and off for years, serving as a Mormon missionary and a U.S. ambassador there. Add in the fact that he has two adopted daughters from China and India, and that’s all the leverage his rivals needed to suggest that he’s un-American.

Before the 2012 New Hampshire primary, supporters of Ron Paul launched an attack ad questioning whether Huntsman has American values and insinuating that his adopted daughters aren’t actually adopted.

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Rmando
Sophomore Silent
8  Rmando    5 years ago

Dear Whoever Wrote This:

Its Bernie supporters who are behind the smear campaign. Trump supporters are just enjoying watching the show. You all could nominate Snow White and the Seveb Dwarves for all I care. 

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
9  Ronin2    5 years ago

From the party that brought us Bill Clinton, Anthony Wiener, Justin Fairfax, Mark Herring, and Ralph Northam.

Seems that hypocrisy is one thing both sides of the isle can agree on.

Neither side is clean.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
10  Jasper2529    5 years ago
Biden had previously addressed the women's accounts in a video shared Wednesday on social media. He did not apologize in that recorded statement, either, but acknowledged times have changed and that he would adjust his behavior.

Nice try, Joe, but there was never a time when it was OK to inappropriately touch women and young girls as you've been seen doing on camera. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
10.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Jasper2529 @10    5 years ago
Nice try, Joe, but there was never a time when it was OK to inappropriately touch women and young girls as you've been seen doing on camera.

Yet you voted for a guy who wants to fuck his daughter Ivanka. He's said he's wanted to "date" her on several taped occasions. And he spoke of Tiffany's future breasts while Tiffany was sitting in front of him and Marla in a bassinet . Start at :30. 

Nice to know that you think it's fine that Trump screwed a porn star without a condom right after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife. And I'm sure you're fine with Melania shooting girl-on-girl porn. Nice.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.2  Raven Wing  replied to  cobaltblue @10.1    5 years ago
Yet you voted for a guy who wants to fuck his daughter Ivanka. He's said he's wanted to "date" her on several taped occasions. And he spoke of Tiffany's future breasts while Tiffany was sitting in front of him and Marla in a bassinet. Start at :30.  Nice to know that you think it's fine that Trump screwed a porn star without a condom right after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife. And I'm sure you're fine with Melania shooting girl-on-girl porn. Nice.

And yet they claim to be the righteous and moral Christians of our society. If that is an example of real Christian morality I am glad I am not one. 

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.4  Raven Wing  replied to    5 years ago
I'm getting sick of being judged by anyone. 

Same here Muva, especially, when those who feel they have the right to sit in judgement of others are no better and perhaps worse than those they denigrate. And most certainly, those who do know Jack about the person they are denigrating, but, try to act like they know everything in the world about them since birth. 

What they don't seem to realize is, that what they are doing to others to try and make them look like a fool, they are only ultimately making themselves look like the fool.

Common sense is a flower that does not seem to grow in everyone's garden. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.5  Texan1211  replied to    5 years ago

That's the thing, though. Trump never said he wanted to date his daughter. It is all made-up lies to denigrate Trump because they just hate him so much.

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
10.1.6  bbl-1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.5    5 years ago

False

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.7  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.6    5 years ago

Prove it. If you CAN, of course (snicker!)

Supply the DIRECT QUOTE WHERE TRUMP SAID HE WANTED TO DATE HIS DAUGHTER.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.9  Texan1211  replied to  cobaltblue @10.1    5 years ago
Yet you voted for a guy who wants to fuck his daughter Ivanka. He's said he's wanted to "date" her on several taped occasions.

Why lie?

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
10.1.10  bbl-1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.7    5 years ago

Use the [google]

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Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.11  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.10    5 years ago

yeah, that is what I expected instead of facts.

I knew you couldn't do it, despite your claims.

Why bother to post lies?

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
10.1.12  bbl-1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.11    5 years ago

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Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.13  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.12    5 years ago

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Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.14  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.12    5 years ago

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epistte
Junior Guide
10.1.15  epistte  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.13    5 years ago
Don't you have a circle jerk to lead now?

Is this your idea of what an intelligent discussion is?

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.16  Texan1211  replied to  epistte @10.1.15    5 years ago

It is appropriate to the audience.

Why?

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
10.1.17  bbl-1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.13    5 years ago

Boring and predictable.  Add nothing.  Deflect.  That is what you bring.

Trump and young daughter Ivanka, there are many photos that are somewhat questionable.  And he has, on many occasions in interviews, some with Ivanka at his side, stated that, "If he could he would date her."  And Ivanka simply laughed.

What the hell are you defending?

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.18  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.17    5 years ago

Why can't you do even the simplest of things?

Supply the DIRECT QUOTE WHERE TRUMP SAID HE WANTED TO DATE HIS DAUGHTER.

Please , for ONCE, prove what you state or I'll just have to put you on ignore.

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
10.1.19  FLYNAVY1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.5    5 years ago

....most famously, Donald Trump went on “The View” in 2006

“I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

....in October 2006, Trump addressed Stern’s question about whether Ivanka had ever received breast implants. Trump said she had not but agreed that Ivanka was:

“voluptuous.”“She’s actually always been very voluptuous”” Trump said. “She’s tall, she’s almost 6 feet tall and she’s been, she’s an amazing beauty.”

This is on tape Tex....

 
 
 
Old Hermit
Sophomore Silent
10.1.20  Old Hermit  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.7    5 years ago
QUOTE WHERE TRUMP SAID HE WANTED TO DATE HIS DAUGHTER

In a 2004 interview with radio host Howard Stern, Trump can be heard acknowledging that it is OK to call his daughter Ivanka, at the time 17, "a piece of ass," CNN reported Saturday.

"By the way, your daughter," Stern said to Trump.
"She's beautiful," Trump replied.
"Can I say this? A piece of ass," Stern asked.
"Yeah," Trump said.

In a 2006 appearance on The View, the Trumps were promoting The Celebrity Apprentice when Donald decided to ogle his daughter on national TV. The hosts asked Trump if he'd mind if Ivanka posed for Playboy, and Trump replied,

I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.

Joy Behar recoiled in her chair and said, "Oh, it's so weird!" and joked "Who are you, Woody Allen?" The other hosts seemed perturbed by his comments as well.

In 2013, talk show host Wendy Williams played a game with Donald and Ivanka, asking them what favorite activities they had in common.

Ivanka said, "Either real estate or golf." Donald grinned and said, "Well, I was going to say sex, but I can't relate that to her," prompting groans from the audience.

In a Rolling Stone profile published in September 2015, Trump reportedly made the following comment about Ivanka, again raising the notion of dating her, if only he wasn't her dad.

“Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one," Trump was quoted as saying. "If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father…”

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epistte
Junior Guide
10.1.21  epistte  replied to  Old Hermit @10.1.20    5 years ago

That man could make a cockroach puke...........

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.22  Raven Wing  replied to  Old Hermit @10.1.20    5 years ago

Ivanka looked uncomfortable when Trump put his hands on her butt in that video and she tried to move away from him. She looks as if she tried to laugh it off, but, her body language showed that she didn't like where his hands went.

Trump is a pervert of the first water, and those      [delete]

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.24  Texan1211  replied to  FLYNAVY1 @10.1.19    5 years ago

Man, that SURE doesn't sound like "I want to date my daughter" to me.

Maybe you can point those words out to me.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.25  Texan1211  replied to  Old Hermit @10.1.20    5 years ago

Why post all of that when I asked a very simple thing?

Please post the quote (as has been claimed MANY times) of Trump saying "I want to date my daughter".

Really shouldn;t be all that hard, what with all the folks claiming he said it.

Why can't anyone simply post what is asked?

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.26  Trout Giggles  replied to    5 years ago

He says he is

 
 
 
Old Hermit
Sophomore Silent
10.1.27  Old Hermit  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.25    5 years ago

Why post all of that when I asked a very simple thing?

Please post the quote (as has been claimed MANY times) of Trump saying "I want to date my daughter".
...
Why can't anyone simply post what is asked?

Do you truly believe that your feigned obtuseness is winning you an points?

The quotes were spoon feed to you in my first post.

Here, I'll feed them to you again, slowly this time and with airplane noises so you'll open up and take them in.giphy.gif

“Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one," Trump was quoted as saying. "If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father…”
I don't think Ivanka would do that inside the magazine although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.

.

So to summarize Trumps thoughts concerning Ivanka, as he has exposed them publicly through the years through his statements.

Trump's public statements distilled;

My daughter, Ivanka, is one Voluptuous piece of ass , whose sexual appetites being the same as mine , ( OK with sexual assault?), i s obviously someone I'd definitely be ban..., er uh, Dating IF I wasn't already a happily married man and, OH Ya, being her dad also unfortunately stops me from jumping her bones, ( @ least that's what I tell the public ).

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.29  Trout Giggles  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.28    5 years ago

Who says that shit about his own daughter????

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
10.1.30  Sunshine  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.28    5 years ago

Do you need a lesson in liberalese?

I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.

When someone says I don't want to date my daughter, in liberalese it means they do.  

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Old Hermit
Sophomore Silent
10.1.31  Old Hermit  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.28    5 years ago
In other words.....   HE DOES NOT WANT TO DATE HER...  just noting that she is in fact a beautiful woman.

What a silly way of thinking you have. 

Trump is admitting that the only thing stopping him is being married &/or being her father.

In other words, he wants to bang his daughter but current social norms preclude him from doing so.

Of course if he can achieve his personal ambition of royal leadership over America he could then have at her as much as he currently desires to do so, just like all the old kings and Pharaohs have carried on with their family members in the past.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.34  Trout Giggles  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.33    5 years ago

Mr Giggles would never say the shit about his daughter that trmp says about his.

I'd knock his goddamn teeth down his throat

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.35  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sunshine @10.1.30    5 years ago

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Sunshine
Professor Quiet
10.1.36  Sunshine  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.33    5 years ago
That she's beautiful?

They never thought of that....just dirty minds.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.37  Raven Wing  replied to    5 years ago
Trump is not a Christian.

He likes to pretend he is and he sure as Hell has all the Evangelicals fooled into thinking he is. Another lie and false persona.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.38  Raven Wing  replied to  Sunshine @10.1.36    5 years ago
just dirty minds.

And Trump has one of the dirtiest according to the things he has said openly about his own daughter. 

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
10.1.40  Sunshine  replied to    5 years ago
would you have any concern for her well being? 

Yes, if the Clintons where anywhere near.  One rapes women and the other covers for him.  

As far as I know, no one has complained about any sexual misconduct by Trump in the West Wing.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.41  Raven Wing  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.28    5 years ago
I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her.

Out of Trumps' own mouth. Are you now calling HIM a liar?

Do you need it spoon fed to you?

320

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.42  Texan1211  replied to  Old Hermit @10.1.27    5 years ago
Do you truly believe that your feigned obtuseness is winning you an points?
The quotes were spoon feed to you in my first post.
Here, I'll feed them to you again, slowly this time and with airplane noises so you'll open up and take them in

Save your pathetic condescension for someone who gives a damn.

I asked for ONE simple thing. You failed to deliver.

Simple and as plain as it can be.

No need to reply unless and until you simply provide the direct quote, as has been claimed, that Trump wants to date his daughter.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.43  Texan1211  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.28    5 years ago
Spoon fed to you?

Some simply aren't ready for solid foods yet.

All these folks seem able to whine and claim Trump wants to date his daughter, but not one clown can supply the quote actually saying it.

 
 
 
bugsy
Professor Participates
10.1.44  bugsy  replied to  Raven Wing @10.1.37    5 years ago
He likes to pretend he is

No more so than Obama did.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.45  Raven Wing  replied to  bugsy @10.1.44    5 years ago
No more so than Obama did.

No more so than it seems the the large majority of politicians do if it serves their own purpose. If they were true Christians they would not be politicians at all. 

Just my own opinion.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.46  Raven Wing  replied to  FLYNAVY1 @10.1.19    5 years ago
This is on tape Tex....

You can't wake a person who is pretending to sleep. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.47  Texan1211  replied to  Raven Wing @10.1.46    5 years ago
This is on tape Tex....
You can't wake a person who is pretending to sleep.

Gee, lots of folks keep claiming it, so why can't you simply produce the direct quote, as has been claimed, that Trump wants to date his daughter? After all, supposedly, it is on tape

I await your post proving Trump ever uttered those words. Everyone else has kept striking out on providing proof for their bullshit lies. Maybe, just maybe, you'll be different.

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
10.1.48  FLYNAVY1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.24    5 years ago

"I want to date my daughter"

Nice duck and cover Tex....hiding behind semantics. Real men who have daughters or have any respect for women would never use the word "voluptuous" or agree with someone they are talking to that she's "a piece of ass".  You don't care about healthcare, you don't care about his views on women..... what is it that keeps you defending this sorry excuse for a human being that is our president? 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.49  Texan1211  replied to  FLYNAVY1 @10.1.48    5 years ago
Nice duck and cover Tex....hiding behind semantics. Real men who have daughters or have any respect for women would never use the word "voluptuous" or agree with someone they are talking to that she's "a piece of ass". You don't care about healthcare, you don't care about his views on women..... what is it that keeps you defending this sorry excuse for a human being that is our president?

Duck and cover? I have asked the same question from the very beginning, based on what another poster claimed. 

Like it or not, what was claimed has not been proven.

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
10.1.50  FLYNAVY1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.49    5 years ago

You heard me Tex.... Duck and cover!

You want to dance around the semantic points rather than acknowledge the issue that this guy has a caveman level of respect for women.  Just agree to that, and we can call it a night.  By the way, do you have daughters?

Regards,

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.51  Texan1211  replied to  FLYNAVY1 @10.1.50    5 years ago
You heard me Tex.... Duck and cover!
You want to dance around the semantic points rather than acknowledge the issue that this guy has a caveman level of respect for women. Just agree to that, and we can call it a night. By the way, do you have daughters?

I wouldn't have ever said the things Trump said, but I am not ready to crucify him yet, okay?

There is plenty of stuff you can criticize him for over the things he HAS said, so there is no need to invent shit.

Adios.

 
 
 
FLYNAVY1
Professor Guide
10.1.52  FLYNAVY1  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.51    5 years ago

Have a good night then.  Take care.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
10.1.53  Tessylo  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.6    5 years ago

The dumb turd said it on TV.  He also said when asked what he and Ivanka had in common, the turd said 'sex'.  Ivanka said 'golf'.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
10.1.54  Tessylo  replied to  bbl-1 @10.1.17    5 years ago

'Boring and predictable.  Add nothing.  Deflect.  That is what you bring.

Trump and young daughter Ivanka, there are many photos that are somewhat questionable.  And he has, on many occasions in interviews, some with Ivanka at his side, stated that, "If he could he would date her."  And Ivanka simply laughed.

What the hell are you defending?'

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Tessylo
Professor Principal
10.1.55  Tessylo  replied to  Old Hermit @10.1.20    5 years ago

The turd has also said 'Is it wrong that I'm more sexually attracted to my daughter than to my wife?

Also, those tits are fake.  

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.57  Sparty On  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.51    5 years ago

It really doesn't matter what OTHER people think of what he said.   Especially the TDS butt-hurt platoon on the left.  

It's kinda funny really.   How accepting many of those folks are about ANYTHING not Trump or conservative.    But a father shows affection for his daughter and they feel he didn't do it right?   Doesn't matter what he sez, they'll find fault with it.   Sanctimonious pricks think they know what was in Trumps mind if and when he said that?   Hilarious! 

They can't see it though.   How could they?   They are all deranged after all.

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.59  Sparty On  replied to    5 years ago
Provocation should never be the underlying motivation of every decision. 

It's not except for perhaps the easily triggered.

Never in recent memory have so many, been triggered so much, by so little

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.61  Sparty On  replied to    5 years ago
and it cuts both ways.

I agree.  

When a father dotes on his daughter and gets lambasted for it i draw the line, no matter who it is.   Biden may be a little creepy to some but i highly doubt that is his true nature.   Etc, etc.

This PC culture these days is beyond out of control.   Its doubtful reason will ever come back the way things are headed.

 
 
 
Sunshine
Professor Quiet
10.1.63  Sunshine  replied to    5 years ago
While you are at it, why not invoke JFK, 

Be glad to.  Why did him and Clinton get a pass from Democrats?  The self-righteousness of late is amusing. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.65  Texan1211  replied to    5 years ago

Just a little?

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.66  Trout Giggles  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.33    5 years ago

I asked Mr Giggles last night if he would say that shit about his own daughter. His reaction:

"What? Are you crazy? I don't want you to knock my goddamn teeth down my throat"

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.68  Sparty On  replied to    5 years ago
Seems to be a lot of chuckling going around

Perhaps you are talking about one of my comments:

It's kinda funny really.   How accepting many of those folks are about ANYTHING not Trump or conservative.    But a father shows affection for his daughter and they feel he didn't do it right?   Doesn't matter what he sez, they'll find fault with it.   Sanctimonious pricks think they know what was in Trumps mind if and when he said that?   Hilarious! 

Clearly intended to be tongue and cheek towards some peoples unmitigated gall in thinking they know what's in another persons mind.   Simply because they don't like him.   So i guess you are right.   I shouldn't have said that was funny because in truth, it is truly sad.   Very sad!

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.69  Sparty On  replied to  Trout Giggles @10.1.66    5 years ago

Sounds like a very healthy relationship.   Congrats!

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.70  Trout Giggles  replied to  XDm9mm @10.1.67    5 years ago

You must be really thin. You burn a lot of calories twisting words like that

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.71  Trout Giggles  replied to  Sparty On @10.1.69    5 years ago

Jealous?

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.1.72  Sparty On  replied to  Trout Giggles @10.1.71    5 years ago

Nah, i'm just happy you appear to be so happy.

Cheers!

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
10.1.75  Trout Giggles  replied to  Release The Kraken @10.1.74    5 years ago

I think it's a form of yoga

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.76  Raven Wing  replied to  Tessylo @10.1.54    5 years ago
What the hell are you defending?'

When it comes to Trump, some of the GOP are like the three Monkeys;

320

JMOO

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
10.1.77  Cerenkov  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.24    5 years ago

They won't recant their lies. It's not in their nature.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.78  Raven Wing  replied to  Cerenkov @10.1.77    5 years ago
They won't recant their lies

Why not clean up your own backyard before finding fault with others. Trump is one of the biggest liars ever to sit in the oval office, and he would rather die than recant even one of them.

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
10.1.79  arkpdx  replied to    5 years ago
Defending him is but enabling his exploitation of women to continue;

Name one woman he has exploited in the last 5 years and provide the proof. 

 
 
 
epistte
Junior Guide
10.1.80  epistte  replied to  arkpdx @10.1.79    5 years ago
Name one woman he has exploited in the last 5 years and provide the proof. 

Cough, cough,........

President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, says he has an “enormous number” of witnesses who prove the president paid off two women to protect his family.
Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer, claimed Trump paid hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to help his 2016 presidential campaign.
 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
10.1.81  Sean Treacy  replied to  epistte @10.1.80    5 years ago

Consensual sex is exploitation now?

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
10.1.82  arkpdx  replied to  epistte @10.1.80    5 years ago
  1. Mr. I Trump relationship with Karen Mcdougal ended in 2007 and the affair with Stormy Daniels ended in 2006. Both relationship were consensual. So now, I tell me how they were exploited at all much less in the past 4 years. 
 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
10.1.83  Texan1211  replied to  epistte @10.1.80    5 years ago
Name one woman he has exploited in the last 5 years and provide the proof.
Cough, cough,........

President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, says he has an “enormous number” of witnesses who prove the president paid off two women to protect his family.

Michael Cohen, the president’s former fixer, claimed Trump paid hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal to help his 2016 presidential campaign.

What exactly is exploitative about having consensual sex with a woman and then giving her money?

Do tell!

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
10.1.84  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Texan1211 @10.1.5    5 years ago

"I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

The View appearance 2006

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.1.85  Raven Wing  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @10.1.84    5 years ago

Isn't it funny how Trump's perverted comments regarding his own daughter have been before the public for many years, and yet, the GOP'ers still deny he said anything of the sort.

I guess they must live in the state of Denial. jrSmiley_78_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
arkpdx
Professor Quiet
10.1.86  arkpdx  replied to  epistte @10.1.80    5 years ago

Still waiting for an answer. It OK to say you are without one. 

Oh McDougal was paid by the National Enquiry for exclusive rights to her story. 

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.2  Sparty On  replied to  Jasper2529 @10    5 years ago

Well, pretty much what we've seen here so far is people arguing over which case of Herpes is the worst.

I would just as soon not get any case of Herpes but some here appear to feel otherwise.

Carry on with the circle jerk people.   Just put a raincoat on.

 
 
 
Don Overton
Sophomore Quiet
10.3  seeder  Don Overton  replied to  Jasper2529 @10    5 years ago

Republican Sex Scandals

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This Republican scandals list is full of stories and incidents that will make you shake your head. Sex scandals have made their way into both the Democratic Party and Republican Party. Regardless of whether or not it's election time, the public is always enthralled by a good political sex scandal. Republican sex scandals are arguably the most entertaining type because of the party's commitment to pro-family and conservative values. This is not to say that there are not plenty of scandals from both political parties, however. From Political John conservative to liberal adulterers, the two parties have been pretty even in terms of sex scandals.

Due to the   2017 Weinstein effect , many Republicans accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault have been added to the list, including former President George H. W. Bush, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama Roy Moore, and Florida state Senator Jack Latvala.

The Republican party led the way in the '80s and '90s with a multitude of sex scandals. More recently, GOP leaders like John Boehner and Newt Gingrich have been embroiled in their own GOP scandals. Republicans are often conservative and publicly preach abstinence, so this makes it even more entertaining when they are involved in extramarital affairs. This   politician list   is full of dirty sex scandals. See   the Democratic list   for the other side of the aisle. After you read this Republican sex scandal list, leave a comment or share it with a friend. 

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On April 27, 2018, Republican   Congressmen Pat Meehan resigned   due to months worth of misconduct allegations. In January, the  New York Times  reported he had used tax payer money to pay off a former aide who had accused him of sexual harassment. The aide alleged Meehan had attempted to start a romantic relationship with her and became hostile when she rejected him. While Meehan continues to deny any wrongdoing, he claimed he wanted to spare his staff the stress of an ethics investigation. 

Birthplace:   Cheltenham, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Profession:   Politician

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In October 2017, President George H. W. Bush was accused of inappropriately touching actress Heather Lind during a promotional event for  Turn: Washington's Spies . She wrote in an Instagram post, which was later deleted, that Bush "touched me from behind from his wheelchair... all the while being photographed, he touched me again." Soon after, actress Jordana Grolnick accused Bush of groping her.

As for November 2017, several more women came forward with similar sexual harassment allegations against President Bush, including one who alleged Bush groped her in 2003 when she was 16 years old. 

Birthplace:   Milton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Profession:   Businessperson, Politician, Soldier, Entrepreneur

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During Roy Moore's election campaign for the Senate, nine women accused him of sexual misconduct. Three of them alleged he sexually assaulted them when they were aged 14 to 28. Although Moore denied the allegations, he did not deny dating teenagers over the age of 16. 

While many Republicans and politicians called for Moore to drop out of the race, President Donald Trump expressed his support. 

Birthplace:   Gadsden, Alabama, United States of America

Profession:   Judge, Politician, Jurist

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Jeff Hoover

On November 6, 2017, Jeff Hoover resigned as the Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives after multiple sexual harassment allegations were made against him. 

Birthplace:   Kentucky, United States of America

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In October 2017, Oregon state Senator Jeff Kruse was removed from all committee assignments after sexual harassment allegations made by fellow Senators Sara Gelser and Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. 

Birthplace:  Oregon, United States of America

Profession:  Farmer

see more on   Jeff Kruse
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Jack Latvala

In November 2017, six women made sexual harassment allegations against Florida state Senator Jack Latvala. 

Birthplace:  Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

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Wes Goodman

Ohio state Rep. Wes Goodman resigned from his position on November 14, 2017, after a non-staffer witnessed him and another adult male having consensual sexual relations inside Goodman's office. Following his resignation, more allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Goodman, including sexual assaulting an 18-year-old man in 2015.

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In November 2017, Minnesota Rep. Tony Cornish was accused of sexual harassment by fellow state Rep. Erin Maye Quade and a female lobbyist. 

Profession:  Police officer, Legislator

see more on   Tony Cornis
herman-cain-photo-u7?w=650&q=60&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces%22 Photo:   Gage Skidmore/ Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 It is alleged that the hopeful Republican nominee for President sexually assaulted former subordinates when he was the head of the Restaurant Association. Up to 3 women have come forward surrounding the issues at hand, each with different allegations of a sexual nature.

Birthplace:  Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Profession:  Businessperson, Politician, Journalist, Author, Presenter

see more on   Herman Cain
chris-myers-politicians-photo-1?w=650&q=60&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces%22 Photo:   Metaweb (FB) / GNU Free Documentation License Alleged to have paid a gay prostitute (known online as "Rentboy") fo
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Birthplace:  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Profession:  Businessperson, Politician, Educator, Historian, Film Producer, + more

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john-boehner-politicians-photo-1?w=650&q=60&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces%22 Photo:   Metaweb (FB) /Public domain It is rumored that John Boehner, the new Speaker of the House and married father of two, had an alleged affair with lobbyist Lisbeth Lyons. In addition, he is also being accused of having an affair with Leigh LaMora, a press secretary to ex-Colorado Congressman Joel Hefley. But, it's important to keep in mind that these allegations are rumors at this point, but time will tell.

Birthplace:  Reading, Ohio, United States, with Territories, Hamilton County

see more on   John Boehner
phillip-hinkle-all-people-photo-u3?w=650&q=60&fm=pjpg&fit=crop&crop=faces%22 Photo:   Imgur Allegedly agreed to pay a man named Kameryn Gibson $140 for a sexual encounter.

Birthplace:  Peru, Indiana, United States of America

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
10.3.1  Sparty On  replied to  Don Overton @10.3    5 years ago

OMG!

Only Republicans have sex scandals?

Who knew?

 
 
 
Tacos!
Professor Guide
11  Tacos!    5 years ago

[delete]

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Quiet
12  bbl-1    5 years ago

Trump is not sexual predator.  He is a user.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
12.1  Texan1211  replied to  bbl-1 @12    5 years ago

So?

And now what?

 
 
 
cms5
Freshman Quiet
13  cms5    5 years ago

It's interesting to see how deflection is used, instead of addressing the actual actions, in defense of Dems gone wrong. Biden did this...but, but Trump. Fairfax did this....but, but Trump. Jussie Smollett did this...but, but Trump. Omar did this....but, but Trump.

Dems broke this wide open...but, but Trump.

The growing pool of Dem candidates would prefer to see the 'leader' in the polls - one who hasn't officially stepped into the race - curl up and go away...but, but Trump.

 
 
 
It Is ME
Masters Guide
14  It Is ME    5 years ago

The Creepy "Lefties" and Creepy Joe didn't know he had an "Issue" before ?

Too Friggin Funny ! jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
15  JBB    5 years ago

Is there no decent big R Republican who will stand up to run against Trumpenstein?

If not then it illustrates how Lincoln's Grand Old Party devolved into the damn gop...

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
15.1  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @15    5 years ago

Why do you care? Is there a single chance in Hell that you would actually vote for a Republican?

I freaking doubt it!

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
15.1.2  Texan1211  replied to    5 years ago

Well, I suppose the GOP could run some people to unseat Trump, but why?

Most incumbent Presidents don't face much of a challenge from their own party. because it would be rather stupid to do so.

Of course, the RNC could simply sell itself to Trump the way the DNC did to Clinton. We saw how that worked out for her--guaranteed her the nomination.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
15.2  Raven Wing  replied to  JBB @15    5 years ago
Is there no decent big R Republican who will stand up to run against Trumpenstein?

That says a lot about those in his party. If they truly want to keep the WH in 2020 then they need to find a respectable candidate. Do they not have one?

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
18  freepress    5 years ago

Since Trump is totally and completely without morals, he cheats on everything, he lies about everything and uses women like kleenex, it is truly astounding that the hypocrites calling themselves the "religious right" voted for him after rejecting ROMNEY.

While Romney is a smarmy wishy washy guy, he has a stable family and no sexual scandals, they wouldn't vote for Romney for God's sake.

This has NEVER been about Religion, or the Constitution, or the Rule of Law or anything the "tea party' hypocrites cried about.

This is about kicking anyone to the curb that doesn't believe the same way, the "libtards". 

While they focus on their hatred of liberals, their hatred of other religions, their hatred of people of color, Trump has filled the swamp with lobbyists, stolen thousands and thousands of dollars promoting his businesses contrary to the emoluments clause, lied to them on a daily basis, remains under lawsuits for sexual harassment, remains under lawsuits for not paying his contractors, and now under investigation for financial and real estate fraud in his home state.

All of that and it doesn't even cover the fact he has destroyed our government by firing every position that needs to go through a confirmation by our elected Congress and our elected Senate. Most of his appointees have escaped any oversight by the men and women the American people elected to confirm who represents us.

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
19  Cerenkov    5 years ago

Liberal hypocrisy is a hell of a drug...

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
19.1  Raven Wing  replied to  Cerenkov @19    5 years ago
Liberal hypocrisy is a hell of a drug...

So is Conservative hypocrisy. Both are strongly destructive and a danger to our country and its people. 

 
 
 
Sparty On
Professor Principal
19.1.1  Sparty On  replied to  Raven Wing @19.1    5 years ago

Agreed, we need to work at stopping both extremes from controlling the narrative.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
19.1.2  Raven Wing  replied to  Sparty On @19.1.1    5 years ago

Indeed. Both sides are not only hurting our own country and its people, they are hurting America's credibility in front of the whole world. 

I don't care about party infighting, I care about our country and and all our people, no matter what their skin color is, their religious or political beliefs. We are all Americans, and as such we should all be doing what is right for our country and its people, not what party politics tells us is right. 

The hard core and extremist politicians on both sides are ruining our country, and makes me wonder just whose side they are really on, America's or some other country that would like to see America defeated from within, as has been predicted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I fear for my Granddaughter and her children to come if we allow the politicians to care more about their party loyalty than the country that is supposed to be "of the people, by the people, for the people". 

And that is why we so truly need a third party that is strong enough to fight for America and its people instead of their own party loyalty.  

Just my own opinion

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
19.1.3  Texan1211  replied to  Raven Wing @19.1.2    5 years ago
Indeed. Both sides are not only hurting our own country and its people, they are hurting America's credibility in front of the whole world.
I don't care about party infighting, I care about our country and and all our people, no matter what their skin color is, their religious or political beliefs. We are all Americans, and as such we should all be doing what is right for our country and its people, not what party politics tells us is right.
The hard core and extremist politicians on both sides are ruining our country, and makes me wonder just whose side they are really on, America's or some other country that would like to see America defeated from within, as has been predicted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
I fear for my Granddaughter and her children to come if we allow the politicians to care more about their party loyalty than the country that is supposed to be "of the people, by the people, for the people".
And that is why we so truly need a third party that is strong enough to fight for America and its people instead of their own party loyalty.
Just my own opinion

That all sounds so pretty, until we read what else you have posted:

Republicans are the ones who voted for the sexual predator and sexual pervert, one who lusts for his own daughter and is not embarrassed to let the world know about it.
 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
19.1.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  Texan1211 @19.1.3    5 years ago
ounds so pretty, until we read what else you have posted:

I'm always amazed at the difference between how somehow people portray how they act, and how they actually act.

 
 
 
Cerenkov
Professor Silent
20  Cerenkov    5 years ago

Dear Clinton Supporters: You Lost The Right To Smear Trump When You Voted For A Sexual Predator

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
Professor Expert
20.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Cerenkov @20    5 years ago

Seems some people can't quite get over the fact that they lost every attempt to stop Trump.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
20.2  Raven Wing  replied to  Cerenkov @20    5 years ago
You Lost The Right To Smear Trump When You Voted For A Sexual Predator

Republicans are the ones who voted for the sexual predator and sexual pervert, one who lusts for his own daughter and is not embarrassed to let the world know about it.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
20.2.1  Texan1211  replied to  Raven Wing @20.2    5 years ago
one who lusts for his own daughter and is not embarrassed to let the world know about it.

When will people tire of peddling that falsehood?

SMH

 
 

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