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Some people think that reality (at least political and social reality) can never be pinned down, it's always shrouded in contradictions and fog. There's just w
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Some people think that reality (at least political and social reality) can never be pinned down, it's always shrouded in contradictions and fog. There's just way too many factoids slinging around; you'll never be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Some people think that at the end of the day, there's so much back and forth in politics and in the mediasphere that it's impossible to tell what's what, or who's on first. Let alone who's right or who's wrong. Like it's all must a matter of... he said, she said.
But this isn't one of those situations.
And in fact sometimes it's really not that hard to make a solid judgement call. It's just a matter of telling from wheat from chaff.
Which in this case -- given the multitude of statements from women on the receiving of his aggressive (and in some cases, likely criminal) behavior; and from his own words on the Billy Bush tape, which by this point everyone at least knows the salient facts of (and most likely has listened to directly, several times, already) -- just isn't that hard.
"You can do anything you want. You can grab them by the ...