Arrogant Bastard
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His reaction is the best.
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WaPo: Trump recorded bragging about his fame letting him violate women in 2005
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DontBeThatGuy
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It's his only option.
ISWThunder
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This is different because he's bragging about sexually assaulting women because of his status... stop listening to anyone trying to make it less than that (e.g. Trump surrogates). The word pussy is not the problem here.
benjipwns
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Fixed through conversion therapy?Hopefully they will all be like her husband.
Imperfected
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I don't think most people believe that they can replace him, or that it would be even remotely possible to win at this point even if they could.
I think--hope, because I like to believe even people on the opposite side of the spectrum have basic decency--that they instead recognize it as a moral imperative to prevent the man from taking office and do what's possible to pull away his pulpit for preaching increasingly vile and hateful rhetoric. If not that, then I at least hope they have enough shame to want to remove him purely for the sake of saving face.
There are worse things in the world than losing. Trump is rapidly working his way down that checklist for the GOP and its constituents.
Nobody KNOWS but there can be safe assumptions. He got booted from a fundraising event by Ryan. The reactions from this are like no others so far. Him boasting about grabbing women by the pussy because he's famous isn't something people are going to forget. It's most definitely a campaign sinker because it's an insult to the largest group of people yet. But he was going to lose anyway imo so take that for what you will.
Angelus Errare
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But rape culture doesn't exist! It's just women being uppity!
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
DontBeThatGuy
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He would've lost the primary anyways.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
"[Blank] is no angel..." is always the best argument. It's a red flag that the person doesn't have a way to argue against what is happening. Literally none of us are angels. So everything is okay, I guess. lol
CNN though...
Holy shit hahaha
LegalEagleMike
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Doubted that the party would rally behind him again.
Figured Jeb! would steal his momentum(lol).
His wife probably wouldnt go for it as well.
You mean in 2016? Basically because he didn't want to. If you watch the documentary on him, Mitt, it's actually very humanizing and is really one of the best glimpses into how exhausting and awful campaign life is. It really took it out of him.
Coffee Dog
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He's bragged about using his fame to sleep with women before, you know that right? And you're surely aware of the many many testimonies of women accusing him of sexual assault?
This news isn't revalatory, this isnt some secret new side Trump. He just didn't say "grab them by the pussy" before.
Trump's daughter? If this election is anything to go by she's looking at him with admiration.
They really are a basket of deplorables. Hillary called it correctly.
I don't completely get why this is the thing that people are treating like a bigger deal than any of the other fifty krabillion fucked up things he has said. He has advocated war crimes, called people from a country rapists, had a video clip spread around about how he would date his daughter, advocated assassinating his opponent, advocated beating people up at his rallies, other awful comments about women, and a laundry list more. I'm not complaining here, as I'm glad this does him in, and he loses to a woman like another poster said. I'm just curious what it is about this that separates it from everything else, or is it just a last straw type of thing?
benjipwns
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He lost twice already.
Running for president takes a lot of energy (and money), and he'd already ran for president twice. He probably just had enough of the whole circus. Plus I think he also just wanted to spend more time with his grandchildren.
Mind sharing your source with video and audio of these previous statements? Perhaps this is different as there is irrefutable evidence vs what somone else heard him say?
Right now, she's looking at her brand's worth going down the toilet.
That, I can't argue with.
It's a last straw type of thing plus this is video evidence of Trump admitting to sexually assaulting women.
Coffee Dog
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He's advocated this before, though. I get that you guys aren't aware of this, nobody really talked about it much or listened to victims, because they couldn't run a clip of Trump saying "grab them by the pussy". It became further background noise that amounted to one Trump anecdote amongst hundreds.
Pence wants that top spot.
DontBeThatGuy
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Pence is one of the worst Republicans.
The reason a secret recording is so incredibly damaging is because people will interpret it to be your true character. How you act when you think nobody is listening is who you are. The guy can get on TV and claim "That's not the real me" but nobody is going to believe that shit.
Romney's 47% comments were a secret recording as well, and he never recovered from it.
Crimson_Gold
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This statement is a whole bunch of nothing. Though likely posturing to say he didn't throw him under the bus while saying he's totally fucked.
God, I was practically drooling reading that, anticipating a line about dropping out of the race. He didn't, but it was a good read nonetheless. This is glorious.
Booooooooooring.
LudicrousSpeed
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The genesis of this tape is in Clinton pushing the Alicia Machado allegations. Those, and Trump's return fire, inspired an AP article about Trump's behind the scenes behavior on The Apprentice, which in turn gave NBC the idea to go look in the vault for anything they might have from their tabloid show.
This never came up in the primary because no one in the Republican Party really wanted to press on his disgusting sexist behavior with the exception of Cruz, and Cruz was only interested once Trump went after his wife and then only approached it from "talking about my wife is off-limits".
Honestly, at this point, I think everyone doing that is just trying to save themselves. They know this is impossible, but they have to signal that they still support the party even if they can't support the candidate. Thus, they call on him to step aside, and if someone actually points out that that is not an option, then they can lament that and go with "please vote down ticket but don't vote for Trump". They have to signal that they support the party to the end, so they have to push for a way, even an unrealistic/impossible one, by which the party can be saved.
Surely you see how video evidence changes things in our society? Ray Rice got suspended for a couple games for domestic violence but as soon as the tape of it leaked, he got suspended indefinitely. That's quite a swing for a tape that supposedly the NFL already had in their possesion.
It's about perception, and you can't hide or really spin the perception that a video creates.
LegendofJoe
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It's nice to see deplorable people outing themselves.
Because all of the other stuff was either against minorities, or could be spin making it look like he was been ambiguous, but now he is caught on tape basically gloating about sexual assault, there is no spin on this or an /s at the end, this is the evidene showing what we already knew about him baed on how he has talked about woman before dancing around words to not seen like a what he really is.
Lightning_Roller
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Fuck yourself Pence, you psychotic piece of shit.
It's almost as if he's half-expecting Trump to completely melt down during the debate.
Tal Shiar Agent
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What time is Paul Ryan's event today? I want to see if he grows a backbone.
univariate
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Haha Pence is pure scum
U.S. Senator John Thune, South Dakota. Chairman of @SenateGOP & @SenateCommerce:
https://twitter.com/senjohnthune/status/784798261781598208
Steeped in a Sea of Games
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I hate that argument that everyone talks that way. Same thing they try to say to downplay racist commentary. No, not all men talk like that, and even if they did, that doesn't make it fine. The president should serve as an example. He or she should at least try to be better.
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