It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump, who sexually abused her in the 90s and then lied about it. This is no doubt why U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote a brief that bluntly laid out the main takeaway: Trump raped Carroll, as the word “rape” is commonly understood.
“The fact that Mr. Trump sexually abused — indeed, raped — Ms. Carroll has been conclusively established,” Kaplan wrote in a court filing. This document allows journalists to use the R-word when discussing what Trump did to Carroll in a department store changing room in New York.
Considering that they back Trump, you’d think Republican women would avoid acting like they think rape is a bad thing.
So considering that they back Trump, you’d think Republican women would avoid acting like they think rape is a bad thing, much less something to get worked up over. Yet Republicans in the MAGA era have embraced total shamelessness as a political weapon. That means Republican women gleefully exploit sexual violence, crying giant crocodile tears over rape and other gendered violence, when in reality, they do everything they can to screw over actual victims.
Holy shit, liberals need to wake up… Conservatives like these cretins because conservatives ARE these cretins.
It doesn’t matter why someone punches you in the face if everyone agrees it was uncalled for. Stop letting vile people shit out gaslighting excuse after gaslighting excuse.
They. Like. The. Cretins. Pointing out that they’re cretins HELPS their popularity with cretins. Holy fucking shit liberals, grow up. Not all people are good people, and you need to DEAL WITH IT instead of DENY it.
They like bad people because they are bad people.
You said a whole lotta words here but I’m trying to understand what your point is here. Are you saying that liberals don’t call out republicans for this stuff? Because they do all the time, so much so that they’re called over reactive or snowflakes, but you seem to be asserting the opposite.
Looking for a one or two sentence summary if you’re up for it and are comfortable compacting down what you’re saying here
What I mean is liberals constantly behave as if conservatives are all just ignorant little innocent children, unaware of all the bad things their policies would bring about. Precisely because Republicans constantly gaslight liberals about their reasoning, and liberals buy the excuses!
While specific, individual conservative voters might be ignorant morons who are otherwise good, the VAST MAJORITY IN POLITICS are disgusting monsters of “humans” who manipulate the idiots. There is no amount of enlightenment that will make them magically care about their victims.
Liberals NEED to understand that there is no such thing as post-history. The worlds’ problems are far from solved. We didn’t magically solve governance by creating an insanely flawed democracy over monarchy. The conservatives want to go backwards. Compromising with them is literally only deciding to drag down and potentially reverse progress.
I point out we keep going right by compromising with the establishment party nominee and we need to vote third party but everyone in threads where I’ve done *this act like I’m Satan and say “THIS IS THE ELECTION WHERE THE DEMOCRAT VOTE IS MOST IMPORTANT! IT’S NOT THE TIME! A THIRD PARTY CAN’T WIN!” for nearly thirty years (I was a meeting who backed Clinton. I’m reformed).
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Yea, there are morons everywhere. Voting third party is literally just a vote for the other guy in first past the post. Even if we magically somehow made neither Joe Biden nor Trump past 50%, politicians just get to pick, and they would NEVER pick the third party spoiler candidate.
Keep in mind a lot of rabid pushback against the left is literally Russian and Chinese political trolling. You don’t have to take everyone saying something stupid seriously.
Hell, even if they’re being honest, they’re still dumb. An idea doesn’t have to buzz around and bite like a fly. Ignore 'em if they troll or are as dumb as a 13 year old that just learned “conservative” is also a political word.
The US needs a a legitimate grassroots movement that is well-funded (fucked if I know how to be honest, hopefully it’s just a lot of small donations from regular people) that consistently lobbies for voting reform. The following changes should be up for debate:
- Replacing FPTP voting with ranked choice voting
- Instituting proportional representative voting where appropriate, particularly for state senates
- Referendum on changing the number of federal senators per state to better represent population
- Referendum on abolishing the Electoral College and instituting a simple, ranked choice popular vote for president
- Systematic review of every single electorate by an independent organisation to unwind gerrymandered districts; this organisation then sets the districts on an ongoing basis in an apolitical way
- Expanding ease of access to voting by every sensible measure possible (much of what AG Garland is doing now) and then considering mandatory voting
- Real-time full disclosure of all political donations to all political bodies (especially PACs)
- Sensible caps on political donations
- Truth in political advertising laws
I’m sure there are plenty of others but if all of those things were managed to be achieved, the body politic’s state and Overton Window of the US would shift dramatically.
Your list is decent, though some are quite our-in-the-sky. We are working on some of these. The recent Supreme Court ruling on keeping trump on the ballot should help in a fight against the electoral college, but probably won’t with the current court. Which is another thing we need major reform to, term limits and financial disclosure and conflict of interest LAWS.
We have the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which could get us out of the electoral college problems if a few more states join. But amending the constitution seems impossible at this stage of our country (and probably has been for the last 40 years at least actually).
