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sorry but I do not buy your bullshit. You only care about you and yours, and that is as far as it goes. Trump managed to appoint a supreme Court that got rid of women's rights, specifically.... and then he bragged about it. Dozens of republican held states had trigger laws that immediately went into effect and the onslaught continues. In Florida we went from Roe to 15 weeks to 6 weeks in less than 2 years And now another supermajority government in Florida I guarantee will abolish all forms of abortion for any reason, I expect a nationwide-ban as well.... Trump will simply say "Oh well that's not me, that was congress, I mean everyone wanted it, so I signed the bill" My niece in here 20's in Orlando, is pregnant with her first child, a daughter and is outside the 6 week ban. That means if she has a serious issue late in her pregnancy, LAWYERS will decide whether or not she gets the care she needs, or if her life is in jeopardy. This scenario has already played out in other states with women dying waiting for decisions, even with a court order allowing them to go ahead with what they need. So fuck your 'care about others'..... you obviously don't give a fuck about my family, my niece, her rights, or her medical conditions. You voted for the guy that took all of that away. My niece, my family are just collateral damage while you comfort yourself with how much you 'care' All my hardcore MAGA friends are now celebrating their victories, tipping a glass and saying "Hey let's still be friends", but cannot answer the question of "How am I supposed to feel about our friendship when you voted to DIRECTLY harm my family" fuck that and fuck them.

At the end of the day you voted for a convicted felon. You agree he’s odious but you held your nose and voted for him in the hopes that his VP and Billionaire fanboy, both who are obviously in it for themselves, might do some good. Trump, you think, with his Supreme Court enablers will temper his worst impulses? You are in for an awakening.

There are a few people in the world even more powerful than rich Americans. How many troops are under his command?

Hi Wendy, Well, at one time they were called Comfort Women. So, that is a 3rd option. Jerry Baumchen

You think he had a blood pact with Trump to get into government before he bought Twitter? Dude - he didn't want to buy fucking Twitter. You're here thinking he's playing 4D chess 20 moves ahead of everyone else when the reality is he made a crazy back of a cocktail napkin offer without doing his due diligence then tried everything he possibly could to back out of the deal until there were no more courts to lose in and he had no legal options left but to pay up. You seem to be living in a fantasy world of bullshit revisionist history.

He's been pretty clear that he wants to enjoy watching the leopards eat our faces. Let's see how long it takes for one of them to eat his.

Can they stay in the enlisted ranks?

The existence of medical mistakes prior to the decision to delay treatment out of fear for the law doesn't change the fact that treatment was delayed out of fear for the law - which is exactly what the lawmakers wanted.

That's the lie that the Republican legal ploy is built on. The law is so deliberately vague, the legal apparatus of the State so publicly eager to prosecute, and the State Supreme Courts so unwilling to intervene that no-one really knows when they can intervene. If his niece has a scan that says the foetus has a condition that is absolutely guaranteed to cause its death along with significant danger to her if carried to term then she still can't do anything about it. This is a feature of the laws, not a bug. It is also not hypothetical, women have already pointlessly died. Women who wanted kids but needed an abortion are dead, for no reason. While mendacious Republican lawmakers point the finger at doctors and say 'hey it was their call, we never specifically said they had to do that' - which is also a feature they deliberately built in, not a bug.

On the whole I think better candidates came out of "smoke filled rooms" than are produced by the primary election system.

If there's any silver lining from the election it was the pure comedy value of Trump, on election day, starting to complain about rampant cheating in a state he ended up winning. Fuck them. They didn't lose anything because of Trump's lies, they lost because of their own lies. They should be ignored completely, throw all those cynical arseholes into Room 101 and throw away the key. The innocent people working in service of the nation whose lives they ruined are who we should be hearing more from. Ask Ruby Freeman if she'd rather have Rudy's millions or her old life back with no death threats - I think I know what she'd choose.

Hi Biil, I am continually amazed at what some people will believe. If it didn't happen to me, it didn't happen. Right up there with the Flat Earth Society. Jerry Baumchen PS) Once again: It is all good until it is your ox that is getting gored.

I personally know half a dozen women who waited over a decade to come out about their sexual assaults. And most of them heard the same thing when they did - "if it happened she would have gone to the police." "He's a great guy, he would never do that." "She just want to smear him." "She is just trying to get something." "She'd remember a lot more than THAT if she had been raped!" "Look at her, no one would rape HER." In 2005, the New York legislature was considering a law that would allow child rape survivors to file civil suits against their rapists. This was important because so many children had been sexually abused by the Catholic Church in New York diocese. The Church was against it (to put it mildly) and so it was not until 2019 that the Child Victims Act was finally signed into law. After it was signed into law, a New York legislator was approached by several women who had been raped in New York prisons decades ago, asking if the CVA could be used to go after the guards that raped them. The answer was no; it only applied to children. There is no statute of limitations on first degree rape in New York, but there had been such a concerted effort to eliminate any physical evidence by prison guards that there was effectively no way to meet the high standards required for criminal prosecution. That request resulted in the Adult Survivors Act, a law that allowed women raped decades ago to file suits against their rapists. Over 3000 women, mostly former prisoners in NY prisons, filed suits. Over 700 of those were successful, indicating that 700 women were in fact raped 20 years or more ago, and had enough evidence to prove it happened for the purposes of a civil trial. Over 1000 of those are still going forward. Three other people who were prosecuted under this act were Trump, Bill Cosby and Diddy Combs. Someone who you have perhaps heard of is Mariska Hargitay of Law and Order SVU. She was raped 25 years ago and didn't tell anyone about it until about a year back. She wrote an essay about the experience, in which she said something very relevant - "Sexual violence persists not because of something unchangeable in our human condition, it exists because power structures are in place that allow it to happen." Such as the power wielded by celebrities, producers and presidents. https://people.com/mariska-hargitay-experience-rape-renewal-reckoning-8424247 Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted a dozen actresses and raped three of them, most of them over 20 years ago. Most of these women did not come forward until 2017, when the New York Times published an article describing some of them. Weinstein had so much power over their careers that they dared not come forward, for fear that they would be blacklisted. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41580010 So no, it's not sus. It's not even that unusual.

Unfortunately the "winner take all" system we have here totally disregards that the winning margin is in low single digits, and the winner may well be extreme, like implementing Project 2025 (which, I suspect, even a lot of Trump voters don't/won't like) with no incentive whatsoever to compromise with the very large minority. Added to that, if the winner turns out to be really awful, it is almost impossible to get rid of them (as compared to a parliamentary system where dreadful leaders can be got rid of pretty quickly). And a system where an indicted criminal gets to choose his/her own judges is just absurd beyond belief.

You’re beating a dead horse. For some reason this election result has brought out even stronger racist and misogynistic views than 2016. A MAGA person shared this ‘joke’ on FB today “I’m not racist my girlfriend has two black eyes”

I think this highlights the fact that Trump's vulgarity and sexual abuse is not swept under the rug by his supporters, but rather it’s seen as some pathetic alpha male trait to be admired. We’ve talked about racism and misogyny a lot, this election has emboldened people that it’s ok to express your views. The news has been covering how in 21 states blacks have been receiving texts to report to the nearest cotton plantation (It’s a hilarious joke that’s 200 yrs old, so relax and don’t be uptight about it!). I’ve got a 28 year old daughter and she’s got more guts than most men. She’s a child protection case worker. Flies to work in a 172/182 on remote islands. Goes camping and 4 wheel driving in her own in the outback. She regularly goes into situations where she requires armed police support. It’s no wonder insecure men feel threatened by strong independent women. Instead they put on eyeliner, makeup, corsets, lifts and diapers and then proclaim themselves alpha males and make derogatory jokes about women.

Ah yes, telling a woman to relax. Such a wonderful attitude. I hope the women in your life haven't suffered any sexual abuse. I know for a fact that if they had, they wouldn't be safe to have that conversation with you. Disgusting.

God I hope you don't have a wife or daughters. If you do, I highly suspect they don't trust you enough to have an honest conversation with you regarding sexual assault. 1 in 6 women in the US have been subject to completed or attempted rape 1 in 4 girls in the US will be sexually abused before they turn 18

Is non-consensual penetration wrong? Because she very clearly said it was non-consensual. I’m assuming you don’t think that as long as she doesn’t claw your eyes out it’s OK (it’s not) Wendy P.

I preferred annoying laughs to rapes.

I preferred Trump's lies to Kamala's

You forgot to mention that trump personally made more money off the presidency than every other president combined in history. "Donald Trump reported making more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue and income during his four years as President of the United States, according to a review of his financial disclosures by CREW. While Trump publicly took credit for donating his taxpayer-funded salary, that ended up being less than 0.1% of the revenue and income he disclosed during his presidency. Far from being a sacrifice, the donation was merely a fig leaf to cover up four years of brazen corruption." "Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made." You have clearly not learned the first lesson of this election. Facts don't mean squat to the MAGA base and neither does corruption.

I voted for Obama twice. In 2016 I didn't vote for president because I was mad about drone strikes, Bernie, the bailouts, etc. Trump is repugnant and narcissistic. He also seemed to pick a bad team once in office. I thought not voting Clinton would send a signal and they wouldn't run an establishment stooge the next time. I was primed to be radicalized into actively supporting the right-wing when I saw Santa Monica turn into a shit hole the 10 years I lived there. There is no excuse for letting addicts throw needles in the street and build tent encampments in residential neighborhoods. For all the talk about Trump being uncouth and uncivilized he's not advocating for policies letting people shit in the street. The covid policies, along with the 2020 riots have destroyed what used to be a beautiful, clean luxury shopping area along the coast. It still sits about 50% empty and about half the tourism traffic from 2019. From the evidence democrats seem to support ugliness and turning every civilized area into a dystopian hellscape where any critical talk which could fix it is censored by bureaucratic hall monitors. The mRNA treatment which had never worked in the previous 10 years of research being forced on an entire population under threat of losing a job and no long term studies across the population was just I was having my first kid when that went down and had zero risk of infection since I was remote. A treatment for a disease that had the median death of 82, which was known since at least April 2020, was not worth any unknown risk in other populations (particularly the young). It was amazing to see regulatory hurdles get removed to get it to market, but forcing anyone to take it when the mantra of the left had been "my body my choice" for the last 20 years is unbelievable. The incentive for fraud is too great when that much money is at stake to capitalize on having everyone buy a product. "Show me the incentive and I'll show the outcome". The left seem to completely ignore incentives. If I had to rank it: 1) Covid policies 2) The FED (Vance has paid this lip service, Elon had engagement with Ron Paul on Twitter. I am hopeful, but realistic) 3) Wars (I expect we leave the Ukraine quickly, and hope the Israel/Iran situation gets resolved, Pompeo being brought out the final campaign is a bad sign, but still hopeful) 4) Getting a lecture about being upset a homeless person was masturbating on the Muni in front of my Mother in Law. "NOT HOMELESS UNHOUSED"

Social media is a huge driver of this. That is the reason why true authoritarian nations tightly control it and all media. And where that goes from here is very unpredictable. Most likely it will end up being reigned in everywhere eventually. Probably only after a major crisis like a war or large scale social unrest.

Oh honey, you think people aren’t watching your videos because they can’t?