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U.S. Politics: The Flood Shall Wash Away The Cobbs


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3 minutes ago, The Anti-Targ said:

Hmmm, intolerant fundamentalist atheism. I'm sure that will end well.

GOD IS DEAD

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GOD IS DEAD

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Meh, this isn't nearly as much fun as I thought it might be. Maybe I should go back to drinking.

Sorry guys, I just don't have it right now RANT!!!!! HATE! RAG3E

I guess I'm feeling a lil' down. I'm gonna do some meditation, maybe take a bath, see where that gets me.

This is really embarrassing.

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2 hours ago, Mexal said:

So this isn't good. One of Trump's most outspoken critics and one that Dems are relying on if people get pardoned is now facing his own issues because it turns out, he's a piece of shit too. Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer just wrote an article for the New Yorker about Eric Schneiderman physically assaulting at least 4 women, 2 of which are on the record. 

 

the peice of shit just resigned

also, how fucking creepy is this statement 

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 have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

 

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3 minutes ago, the pee tape is real said:

the peice of shit just resigned

also, how fucking creepy is this statement 

 

Hmm, did this night just pull a bitch?

Obviously it's good riddance to the filth, but what about that line you quoted is so 'fucking creepy'?

I've had the shit smacked out of me while fucking. But I didn't file charges because we was just playing. That seems like a pretty standard non denial denial. It's a lie, that doesn't make it creepy.

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6 minutes ago, the pee tape is real said:

uh, the fact that the best an experienced and high profile prosecutor could come up with in his own defense is ‘rape, that’s where it goes too far’

Yeah, that's fair. And actually, I've got CNN on and about ten seconds after I hit the 'submit' button someone said exactly that.

 

ETA: Sarah Sanders controls her brow and eyes well, but her jaw clenches whenever someone brings up Gulliani or porn stars. It's subtle. Check the Pterygoideus Internus (That rounded part at the base of your mandible right by your neck, about an inch above that on the inside of the bone, you can feel the muscles). You can see that she grinds her teeth while the reporters are asking the questions because when she clamps her molars down it pushes soft tissue away from the teeth making a little bulge right below her ears.

She's very uncomfortable on the podium these days is what I'm getting at.

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52 minutes ago, Shryke said:

It's easy to see going like that because that's basically exactly what happened with Watergate. Except that back then, eventually the Republican party caved under public outrage.

It also helped that the Democrats had about 242 seats (~52%) in the House and 56 in the Senate at the time, and Nixon's approval was in the 20s by the beginning of 1974 (he resigned in August.)

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Even if I don't really believe his excuse I don't think there's anything odd about it. His claim is that they were engaged in roleplay. It being consensual or not is literally the only sticking point there. Either he's telling the truth and the hitting and such was part of an agreed upon sexual fantasy or (more likely imo) he was getting off on the whole thing and the women in question didn't agree to jack shit. It being non-consensual would basically be where it goes too far.

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21 minutes ago, Shryke said:

Even if I don't really believe his excuse I don't think there's anything odd about it. His claim is that they were engaged in roleplay. It being consensual or not is literally the only sticking point there. Either he's telling the truth and the hitting and such was part of an agreed upon sexual fantasy or (more likely imo) he was getting off on the whole thing and the women in question didn't agree to jack shit. It being non-consensual would basically be where it goes too far.

My first thought was that he might have mentioned that he likes to play rough or some shit and then just started swinging without waiting for actual affirmation.

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3 minutes ago, Pony Empress Jace said:

My first thought was that he might have mentioned that he likes to play rough or some shit and then just started swinging without waiting for actual affirmation.

My first thought was he didn't even bother with that and just assumed consent when they didn't fight back or whatever. The more you read the story the more it sounds like he got drunk and then got violent and then threatened them to keep them quiet.

There's been some tweets and such saying that anyone who was in the whole New York state-level politics scene is completely unsurprised by this story.

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Just now, Shryke said:

My first thought was he didn't even bother with that and just assumed consent when they didn't fight back or whatever. The more you read the story the more it sounds like he got drunk and then got violent and then threatened them to keep them quiet.

There's been some tweets and such saying that anyone who was in the whole New York state-level politics scene is completely unsurprised by this story.

Mmm! Right on.

That's fucking awful for the coalition forces then. I need Donnie to start tweeting about this so he can take some heat.

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I really don't think Schneiderman's disgrace is going to have any effect on the Trump investigations.  New York will elect a new Democratic AG in November.  Could be Preet Bharara!

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Just now, dmc515 said:

I really don't think Schneiderman's disgrace is going to have any effect on the Trump investigations.  New York will elect a new Democratic AG in November.  Could be Preet Bharara!

They also didn't hesitate, which looks good.

Even though I've seen it suggested that has as much to do with him and Cuomo being rivals as anything.

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22 minutes ago, dmc515 said:

I really don't think Schneiderman's disgrace is going to have any effect on the Trump investigations.  New York will elect a new Democratic AG in November.  Could be Preet Bharara!

I'd love that!

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As to the "evangelical"  thing --first, remember that support for Trump is just a White evangelical thing. 

Also, just as a bit of the continued high % of Trump support among Republicans is because some anti-Trump conservatives have stopped telling pollsters they are Republican, a bit of the high % of evangelical Trump support is became some anti-Trump theologically conservative Christians have stopped telling pollsters they are "evangelicals."

The PRRI site shows that in 2013 17.5% of Americans identified as White Evangelicals, while 14.2% identified as White Mainline Protestants. In 2017 the figures were 15.3% for White Evangelicals, and 13.3% for White Mainline Protestants --while both are down, the % of Evangelicals has fallen faster than the % of Mainline Protestants the last five years, which really challenges the narrative Evangelicals had that they were going to drive the Mainline out of existence soon, as they were demographically much younger than Mainliners. But the last decade young people have dropped the Evangelical label at a much greater rate than they have dropped the Mainline label.

http://ava.prri.org/#religious/2017/Regions/religion/m/national

 

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3 minutes ago, Mexal said:

They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

 

Goddammit, Mexal. I just stepped off the wagon and you drop this shit on me? I have to be at work in four hours and I'm only half way through this bottle of Crown Apple.

What kind of shit are you trying to pull here you Dirty Dalton fan?

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1 hour ago, Ormond said:

As to the "evangelical"  thing --first, remember that support for Trump is just a White evangelical thing.

Thank you. We had a similar discussion a couple of threads back about 'working class'/ 'white working class'.

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5 hours ago, DanteGabriel said:

It would be shocking, if white Evangelical Christianity were actually about the teachings of a pacifist redistributionist Jewish radical. But for them, it's about power and control and revenge for cultural grievance.

^^^My sentiments exactly.

4 hours ago, Pony Empress Jace said:

Yeah, that's fair. And actually, I've got CNN on and about ten seconds after I hit the 'submit' button someone said exactly that.

 

ETA: Sarah Sanders controls her brow and eyes well, but her jaw clenches whenever someone brings up Gulliani or porn stars. It's subtle. Check the Pterygoideus Internus (That rounded part at the base of your mandible right by your neck, about an inch above that on the inside of the bone, you can feel the muscles). You can see that she grinds her teeth while the reporters are asking the questions because when she clamps her molars down it pushes soft tissue away from the teeth making a little bulge right below her ears.

She's very uncomfortable on the podium these days is what I'm getting at.

^^^This bolded bit is my favorite post of the entire thread, hands down.

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