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    thetallblonde loves twinjaAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:34pm

    i...have feelings. while i wish rape and sexual assault on NO ONE, do i kind of hope that this story is true so that drumpf falls from grace?

    who am i kidding, his supporters would love him more if he raped a child.

    nevermind, carry on.

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      MajorBurnthetallblonde loves twinja
      6/24/16 1:45pm

      I tend to just wish people would realise that this racist orange asshole would make an awful president.

      These allegations could be totally true, or the could be a clumsy smear.

      At any rate, I hope this gets seriously investigated and that the woman in question is treated respectfully.

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      thetallblonde loves twinjaMajorBurn
      6/24/16 1:45pm

      I tend to just wish people would realise that this racist orange asshole would make an awful president.

      you sweet, sweet, hopeful soul. i wish i could be less cynical and more like you ;)

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    RegalAlienAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:48pm

    Feelings breakdown:

    Point: I never want to disbelieve anyone reporting they have been raped.
    Counterpoint: This seems to be a group of people who were not there reporting someone else has been raped.

    Point: Trump is a creepy entitled creep.
    Counterpoint: All rapists are creepy entitled creeps, not all creepy entitled creeps are rapists.

    Hit publish prematurely, ETA: Conclusion: Awful. Either because Trump is a worse human being than I thought, or because his detractors are stooping to dishonest and disgusting tactics to try to bring him down, and hurting real victims in the process.

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      FetishRegalAlien
      6/24/16 2:06pm

      Now now, not all rapists are creepy entitled creeps: some of them are your friends, and you have no idea!

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      RegalAlienFetish
      6/24/16 2:10pm

      No, they all are. Part of the creepiness is the ability to go about their lives as usual either unaware or unconcerned that they have done something wrong (up to and including the ability to have and keep friends who love them and would be shocked to learn of it), and the entitlement is in the helping themselves to someone else’s body for their gratification.

      They are not all monsters though, or irredeemable violent sadists, and yes - almost certainly some of them are among my friends. :/

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    HaHaYouFoolAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 2:01pm

    Honestly, what jumped out to me the most in this whole story is that the lawyer that eventually took her case is a patent lawyer. That’s like...getting a gynecologist to do your spine surgery. I mean, yeah, they’re both doctors, but the level of specialization is pretty intense. It’s the same with attorneys.

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      Morgan JoylighterHaHaYouFool
      6/24/16 3:29pm

      If nobody would touch your spinal surgery for fear of being murdered or their career being ruined, the options you are willing to consider can get a little desperate / absurd eventually...

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      TampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)HaHaYouFool
      6/24/16 3:36pm

      OR! Like in Florida, Rick Scott saying that if they shut down all the Planned Parenthood clinics, women can just seek treatment from their dentists!

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    Global BeetAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:46pm

    Even if this story isn’t true, this man (a man who on several occasions waxed lyrical about how much he wants to bed his daughter, repeatedly expresses bigoted views about minorities, talks and acts like a neanderthal, among a host of other things) has garnered mass support from Americans. I mean completely setting aside politics, this man is truly contemptible in almost every way imaginable and there is a not-insignificant contingency who want him as leader.

    The person who said none of the Republican candidates would have made it out of Willy Wonka’s factory in one piece, I think this sentiment applies to huge swaths of American Citizens. There truly is a massive contingency of people who are just wrotten to the core and Trump very well might become president because of it.

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      johnseaveyGlobal Beet
      6/24/16 2:13pm

      But the thing is, saying, “Well, even if it isn’t true it’s the sort of thing they’d do” is what Hillary has had to put up with for twenty-five years. Benghazi, Vince Foster, crackpipe Christmas decorations, flinging heavy objects at Secret Service people, secret email servers that leaked information to China, Whitewater, the Clinton Foundation...it’s all a big steaming load of bullshit based on the logic that she’s obviously a bad person so it’s okay to believe what you want to believe about her.

      I would prefer to hate Trump for all the perfectly legitimate reasons out there, rather than accepting the word of some guys who are already equivocating about the facts.

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      BDCBGlobal Beet
      6/24/16 2:21pm

      “Wrotten" = a combination of "wrong and "rotten"? Even if this is a typo, I dig it.

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    three08, dog fancierAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:50pm

    if this story is a hoax, i can’t imagine anyone attacking trump would execute it so clumsily. the possibility that some part of trump’s campaign would concoct this, either as a gotcha moment for any media outlets that grabbed the story and ran with it a la rolling stone, or to muddy the waters and desensitize the public before some actual if less intense revelation, doesn’t seem as farfetched, but it does seem rather optimistic to assume that any outlet would just jump on these obviously currently-unsubstantiated claims so soon after the rolling stone debacle.

    if it’s a hoax, the motivation and desired outcomes are not clear or intelligible. holy fuck do i hope it is a hoax, though.

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      RegalAlienthree08, dog fancier
      6/24/16 1:53pm

      The Trump campaign hoax angle hadn’t occurred to me but it seems somewhat plausible and now I’m depressed about the state of politics. More so than I already was, I mean.

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      MoxieMOOOOOOOOORegalAlien
      6/24/16 2:43pm

      Well, I don’t think it’s a hoax generated by Trump himself. The man and his (former) campaign manager are total idiots who use campaign money to transparently pay his own companies, as well as that “Draper Sterling” thing, which I mean, was “Totally A Fake Company LLC” taken? That Manafort dude seems pretty with it, but he only came into power last week, so I doubt this is a long con by Trumpo.

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    ad infinitumAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 2:52pm

    I honestly don’t think it matters, as far as his voters are concerned. They believe that Trump is going to make America white again and put people of color and women back in their place. They wouldn’t let a little thing like child rape get in the way of that.

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      TampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)ad infinitum
      6/24/16 3:38pm

      It’s not like they repudiated the Duggars or anything.

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      silvertigerad infinitum
      6/24/16 5:19pm

      I think it’s entirely possible that some of Trump’s troglodyte MRA-type followers would silently approve of and be titillated by the idea of him having enough money and influence to literally get away with rape. They might never admit it out loud, but I’m pretty sure they’d be getting off on it.

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    foxGreyjoy and the salty cynicAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 3:20pm

    “My bride and I believe..”

    Ugh.

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      swaggyjaygarrickfoxGreyjoy and the salty cynic
      6/24/16 8:16pm

      Thank you. Almost puked up happy hour reading that

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      Codename_SailorVfoxGreyjoy and the salty cynic
      6/24/16 8:28pm

      So glad I wasn’t the only one who read that line and shuddered.

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    Flying SquidAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:58pm

    Did he do it? I have no idea. Is it the sort of thing I think he’s capable of and willing to do? Absolutely, if he doesn’t think he’ll get caught.

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      FieryrebirthFlying Squid
      6/24/16 2:38pm

      That’s the problem, sadly. Apathy is so bad that ignorance flows like a clean river. After all, the loudest criers often make the changes, but select groups can be silenced and greatly hurt morale.

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      TrumpsTinyHandsFlying Squid
      6/24/16 2:45pm

      The part where someone says “you don’t touch Mr, Trump’s penis without a glove” and “after climaxing he pushed them away and berated them for their poor performance” sounds pretty spot on.

      We can test the story though: ask the alleged victims what color his pubes are, and does he comb them around in some crazy swoop thing that covers his taint.

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    chienfouAnna Merlan
    6/24/16 1:47pm

    The only surprise here is that a Trump/Epstein scandal broke before a Bill Clinton/Epstein one. It is well known that Clinton was a frequent flier on the “Lolita Express.”

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      showbiz2Anna Merlan
      6/24/16 2:31pm

      Sigh. The very simple reason it isn’t being picked up is because Bill Clinton has the SAME ties to Epstein, along with some of the same accusations.

      If they blow it up via Trump, Bill will be caught as well. So, fucking DUH, the anointed Hillary is pressing very fucking hard to keep this one quiet because she knows where Bill’s penis has likely been, and taking down Trump in this way will bring down Bill. Again, Bill’s penis is going to potentially fuck over Hillary.

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        swaggyjaygarrickshowbiz2
        6/24/16 8:18pm

        Give me the bill/epstein tea

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