Persecuted for being to much of a cool guy

(Special mention for Mr Coomer over here)

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    ow is this not a massive scandal in the US?

    It is, for Republicans. Democrats ignore it. Just like they ignored Tara Reade. Just like Republicans ignored "Grab them by the pussy" and "Stormy Daniels." It's just a bunch of bourgeois partisan hackery and lazy mudslinging between ruling class hypocrites. They all come together and reach across the aisle when it's time to bomb the global south or throw more people in ICE camps.

    Like how come Clinton’s blowjob was international news but the presidents son being a crack addict with connections to sex trafficking and high level corruption is not?

    I mean JFK was constantly cheating on his wife with Marilyn Monroe. And I'm pretty sure Herbert Hoover was having sex with a woman 1/3 his age in the white house closet or something. This kinda thing is normal among the American ruling class. They use it to mudsling at each other, but nobody really cares when their team does it.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      a fun moment in Hell of Presidents is when they're talking about Cleveland's campaign when it came out that he had an illegitimate son. Blaine supporters would chant "Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa?" and after Cleveland won Clevand supporters responded to it with shouts of "Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Show

        he was also the first and only guy to pull off the thing that trump is currently trying to do, which is serve two nonconsecutive terms

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG
          GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG, GROVER GANG (GROVER GANG!)
          SPENT THREE BIL THIRD CAMPAIGN
          MY BITCH LOVE TO CAMPAIGN, OOH
          SKIPPED A TERM THEN REGAINED

          just had to use this bit one more time before the election really gets underway and the irony becomes super attenuated

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Just like they ignored Tara Reade.

      #metoo movement, 2017-2020. That brief, shining moment.

      "Compassion for rape victims is one thing. Taking allegations seriously is one thing. We have a democracy under threat from a fascist president. Tara Reade is an adult and she needs to be treated like one AND she needs to act like one. Prove your claim Tara. The burden is on her.

      One person is accused of rape, which the other person denies - which means either one person is a rapist or the other is making up a claim bout rape in the middle of a presidential campaign and by extension derailing democracy in America and imperiling the lives of millions."

      -- Reddit 2020