Same thing we did the previous fifteen times Trump has been accused of sexual assault.
Occam’s razor points to Trump being guilty of rape whether the accuser is of dubious credibility or has an impeccable character, and all of those in between.
That’s the thing. This story doesn’t sound fishy. It sounds like the kind of thing Trump would do. It’s like a woman saying Bill Clinton had an affair with her.
Donald Trump is a rapist. And Republicans are okay with that.
E. Jean Carroll is a humorist and has some very funny books out. She’s been a columnist, a television personality, a journalist, and a speaker. She is very well known in some circles and certainly had the type of celebrity visibility that would be immediately recognized by another person who swam in those exact same New York celebrity circles. The only thing truly unbelievable is that Donald Trump wouldn’t have recognized her.
This is the context of the “rape is sexy” cherrypicking quote.
It should not be necessary to say that Carroll never claimed that rape itself is sexy or that her rape was sexy or that any woman’s rape is sexy. Yet it has become necessary to do so, because of right-wing media. Can there be a greater indictment of right-wing media and those who spout its lies as reality?
Care to defend your boy’s “She’s not my type” response to a rape allegation? I mean this sort of defense would be vile coming from a high school student, but yet it’s ok when it comes from the head of the Republican Party and President of the United States? Actually, yeah, I guess that sounds about right these days.
Perhaps he was using humor to deal with a painful situation.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes, Trump is well-known for his use of humor.
Yep. He has the best jokes!
Stop him if you’ve heard this one: “3,000 minors are separated from their parents at the southern border…”
We all laughed when he said “I am an extremely stable genius.” In truth, few of us can stop laughing when we think of Trump.
But then he’ll get accused of rape - yet again - and the smiles quickly droop into sadness.
Two friends have acknowledged that she told them about the rape at the time and that she is telling the truth that one of them said “You were raped, you have to report this” and the other “Don’t tell a soul, he would crush you and ruin your life”. I for one believe them, but it’s always easy to believe credible accusations against openly horrible people.
Someone mentioned it…
“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 them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
She could try revenge fucking the female staffers, but Trump would probably like that too much.
Trump raping Jussie Smollet is worth a thread of its own.
You find the most powerful man in the world punching down at a woman based on her looks and whether she’s attractive enough for him to have raped her to be potentially humorous? If it was meant to be humor from Trump, can you fucking defend that?
So at this point, I have to ask: what would it take for you to believe a woman who said Trump raped her?
Nothing about her story strikes me as fishy. I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find a fishier sounding allegation that is nevertheless true. So what about it makes it fishy to you?
Do you have evidence that Carroll is the kind of person who would lie about rape? Perhaps you know something about her character and her trustworthiness that you could share with us, that would help explain why you doubt she’s being honest?
I get the feeling that there is no Trump-defending Republican alive who would believe any woman who said Trump raped her. Even if the woman herself was a card-carrying Republican. And it would be one thing if the guy hadn’t basically admitted to “I don’t even wait” when it comes to getting consent, but you know, he did admit that.
Boy, this is pretty low. Illogical and low. Maybe I should see your acknowledgement that hate crimes happen as a step forward, but since, as far as I can determine, you’ve never acknowledged in a thread about a particular hate crime that it was, in fact, a hate crime, even that small statement rings hollow.
But that’s not what’s important here. What’s notable is that you throw hate crimes and rape into the same lot. In effect, you’re saying, “All these Black/Jewish/Muslim/gay people and all these women coming forward about sexual assault are of a piece.” And then you dismiss all.
And flippancy to boot. Because most accused criminals joke about their victims to deal with a painful situation. :rolleyes:
But no part of it is fishy, as you well know. It is a believable account, by a seemingly sane person, against a man who is the subject of an unusual number of such accusations and who brags about doing it.
The weird and irrelevant comparison to Jussie Smollet is stupid. Smollet’s story WAS fishy. Many, many “liberals” found it highly suspicious.
Cutting to commercial is awkward, but it happens all the time in capitalist countries.
EG: Fox News Cuts Off Guest Tying Rise in U.S. Anti-Semitism to Trump Rhetoric, Charlottesville
Already quoted in post #24.
Although it seems that whenever a woman criticizes society’s attitudes toward rape too many men want to shift the conversation elsewhere. Maybe if men shifted their fantasies that rape can be sexy first, the conversation would go a lot smoother.