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I encourage you to watch one of his recent rallies. It is not hyperbole.
by mejari 10y ago
I encourage you to watch one of his recent rallies. It is not hyperbole.
- tedajax 10y agoSeriously I feel like I'm taking crazy pills on HN the way people are apologizing for Trump in this thread. This is a man that has sexually assaulted women and actively campaigned on kicking out all the "others". Trump is not worthy of defense.
- gjolund 10y agoAllegedly assaulted women.
- mejari 10y agoCan you say "allegedly" when he himself admits to it?
- gjolund 10y agoThen why hasn't he been indicted?
- mejari 10y agoBecause no one has pressed charges? I don't see how that's relevant. People can be guilty of things they haven't been proven to do in a court of law. I'm not saying he should be thrown in jail without due process, I'm pointing out that he himself has admitted to committing sexual assault, so it seems wrong to have a caveat of "allegedly".
- gjolund 10y agoIf he were guilty, and if Clinton were the champion of feminism that she says she is, then why wouldn't they press charges?
- mejari 10y agoWhat at all does Clinton have to do with these women pressing charges or not? As for why a woman might not press charges after a sexual assault, there are a multitude of reasons that have been discussed in plenty of related literature, I urge you to seek them out.
- gjolund 10y agoHillary paints herself as the savior of all women, yet she can't convince a group of women who could literally win her the election to press charges? Smells like bullshit to me.
- mejari 10y agoYou want her to insert herself into these women's personal choices? Can you imagine the outrage from the right if she tried to convince these women of anything? You're not making any sense, it just sounds like you're looking for an excuse to put down Clinton over a situation she has zero involvement in.
- gjolund 10y agoI don't want her to do anything. She is already playing dirty, why stop at convincing a group of women to lie some more for the cause?
- mejari 10y agoSo, you're angry at her for not doing something you don't want her to do, but you feel like she would do it, even though she's not doing it. And you're throwing in random accusations of lying. You're reinforcing my thought that you are just trying to find an excuse to be angry.
- gjolund 10y agoI'm not angry at anything. I have just seen what happens when unfounded claims of sexual assault get taken seriously.
- dragonwriter 10y agoWell, I'm not saying this is why, but it's not like he hasn't quite visibly paid off prosecutors when charges were being considered against his organizations, so it's not implausible he'd do the same thing when he was in personal jeopardy.
- cookiecaper 10y agoHe didn't admit to it.
- douche 10y agoThe whole sexual assault angle is bizarre to me, because there is no moral high ground to seize here. It's not like Bill Clinton was a monk and kept his Johnson in his pants during his years in the limelight. And it's not like Hillary didn't discredit and do her part in persecuting women who stood up and blew the whistle on his indiscretions. Yeah, Trump is a frigging billionaire who officiated at Miss Universe contests. If it had turned out that he had never made a pass at any of those beautiful women, I'd be suspecting that he's really a closet case, or else he is the saintliest man in human existence. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it doesn't fit his brand.
- tedajax 10y agoI'm sorry I'm replying 7 days after your post but I came back to this comment to check something and noticed you'd posted a reply. I say all this to say... One candidate has sexually assaulted women. One candidate has most certainly not. If you don't see a moral high ground to seize there you are being deliberately obtuse. In fact I'd go as far to call you a hateful moron.