The biggest political story of the day confirms what people suspected about Donald Trump: he has a loathsome view of women as sex objects, eager to be touched by him. CNN posted his full statements. It contains language that I never permit on this blog.
I read it and was stunned that he would make these comments in the presence of other people. It is the worst kind of juvenile, locker-room insulting of women.
This is a man who looks on women with contempt and measures their worth by the size of their breasts. But that’s the least of what he said.
He is vulgar, crude, and an embarrassment to the Republican Party and to our nation.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Maybe we should ask Monica Lewinski what Bill had to say to her
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Bill Clinton is not running for president.
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The fool of a woman who enabled and protected Bill Clinton is running for president. Let’s not act like Trump would be the first man to sit in the Oval Office who speaks this way. He’s the first one who got caught. I suspect Kennedy, Johnson, and a Bush or two also spoke that way. It’s a non issue for me when casting my ballot. I’m more concerned with Hillary’s obligations to Wall Street and her denial of it than I am with Trump’s locker room talk. Hillary has not fooled this Bernie supporter and no matter what Trump says, I will not vote for her.
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Hillary did not “enable” Bill Clinton. Hillary was a woman who had a husband who cheated and, yes, Bill Clinton was disgusting. But Bill Clinton is not running for president, Trump is. And we have a fully grown man running for president who did not practice “locker room” talk, but was describing sexual assault and laughing about it.
If Trump supporters want to deflect to Bill Clinton as a strategy and attack Hillary for trying to save her marriage, go for it. Maybe serial adulterers Guliani, Gingrich, or Trump himself can tweet that strategy to all women who have worked through marital issues. Or maybe we can put his comments on a bumper sticker for dads with young daughters entering middle or high school. Here’s one – Republicans can give out pack backs to college aged women with Trump’s portrait and the phrase “grab my p—–!”. I encourage Republicans to keep defending their man as they are now doing.
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Great idea.
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Jane Mayers: You were a Bernie supporter and now Bernie himself is campaigning for HRC and recommends that you vote for her.
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Your opinion of women is disgusting. She stood by her husband. That’s it She did not “enable” him anymore than any woman “enables” her husband to have an affair. Don’t blame the victim here. What Bill Clinton did was wrong. But to say that Trump “just did the same thing” is disingenuous, since the Republicans were all clamoring to get the guy thrown out, but just shrug that Donald Trump has done FAR worse with women, and multiple times (3 marriages, anyone?).
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Remember that when Bill Clinton’s infidelities were revealed, he was ashamed. He turned purple and tried to save his marriage.
When Trump’s lascivious behavior was revealed, he laughed and said it was just locker room banter and “everyone does it.” He has no sense of shame. He has no dignity. He is a dirty old man. Don’t let your wives or daughters near him. Don’t let them watch TV when he is on. He is revolting.
The whole world is watching. Laughing at us.
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If anyone’s daughter’s self esteem is affected by Trump or any other lewd talking man, then they are failing as a parent. I don’t care who Bernie wants me to vote for. I”m voting for the guy running against Hillary Clinton. And I disagree with you on Hillary and Bill. It’s not that she stuck with her husband, it’s that she campaigned for him. If she felt Bill was fit to sit in Oval Office as head pervert in charge then Trump’s lewd talk should not be an issue for her. You’re obviously bothered by Trump’s potty-mouth. I’m not.
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Well Janie… that is a BIG “I!” No one would deny you your freedom to vote for a dictator.
“Threat to Jail Clinton Smacks of ‘Tin-Pot Dictators’ EXPERTS Say!” – (because such men throw their opponents in jail when they reach power! http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-special-prosecutor.html
Here is a man who is so dangerous that everyone who knows what is at stake writes of their fright,”Trump and the Nuclear Keys ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/opinion/trump-and-the-nuclear-keys.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ty_20161012&nl=opinion-today&nlid=50637717&ref=headline&te=1&_r=0 ”
“We assume that presidents will grasp the power of the nuclear arsenal at their disposal and show the utmost restraint in using it.”
As 20-somethings at the bottom of the nuclear chain of command, launch keys and codes were in our anxious hands, we could only imagine how close we were to Armageddon. But we trusted the president to defuse the crisis and avert a nuclear war, and to call upon us to fire only if necessary for the nation’s survival. The whole point would be to never have to fire. Since only he could unleash our weapons of mass destruction — which we could fire in one minute after receiving the order — we felt a trustful, almost intimate connection to the very top of the chain.”
“Donald J. Trump is of a radically different ilk and temperament from past presidents. If I were back in the launch chair, I would have little faith in his judgment and would feel alienated if he were commander in chief. I am not alone in this view. A vast majority of current and former launch officers in my circle of friends and acquaintances tell me they feel the same.”
But not you Jane… impervious to the truth of his hidden agenda for Russia, you are gonna vote as if this man will be president of the class, or the winner on a TV Show. I so admire your ability to look away from the truth!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/opinion/donald-trumps-weird-world.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20161012&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=0&nlid=50637717&ref=headline&te=1 “To profess not to know at this point is willful misrepresentation,” one senior United States official told NBC News. Presidents can choose to disregard an intelligence finding, but at this point, why would Mr. Trump feel he has better information or analytical ability than a “high confidence” conclusion by the country’s intelligence professionals? Why would he not want to acknowledge a threat and address it?
“‘For most of this campaign, Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and his willingness to act as a Kremlin apologist on issues ranging from Syria to the computer hacking of individuals and political parties have been sources of bafflement and dismay. Mr. Trump’s alarming performance at Sunday night’s debate deepened these concerns.
Mr. Trump again denied that the Russians were doing anything to manipulate the presidential election despite powerful evidence to the contrary. And he again laid bare his cockamamie and uninformed view of the bloody civil war in Syria and his refusal to acknowledge Russia’s role in making it worse.
Mr. Trump has no foreign policy experience. He has, however, received two briefings from American intelligence agencies that should have alerted him to the challenges facing the next president but apparently have not. All of which raises unsettling questions about whether the Republican nominee for the most powerful job in the world is Mr. Putin’s poodle, stubbornly naïve, totally clueless or, as some have ominously suggested, protecting undisclosed business interests in Russia.”
Good for you, Jane… and so bad for our children and grandchildren.
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It’s Jane, not Janie, Diane. Condescend much? Rich commentary from someone who once backed the bad guys trying to destroy public education. You helped sail this sinking ship. Obama gives John King the reins in DC after being forced out of NY. Hillary will be no different. I reject your premise. I’m not voting for a dictator. As I said, I’m voting for the guy running against Hillary Clinton. Clinton continues to lie by omission. She still insists there is no evidence her emails were hacked by hostile actors when the fact is the FBI concluded there is no way to tell if her emails were hacked my hostile actors. Accept the fact that there are people like me who don’t think Trump’s sins are any worse than Hillary’s. .
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Sorry for the typo, Jane.
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Dear Ms. Meyers, you are quick to be offended, which is so like one of the candidates running for president, and like him you attack with baseless and ridiculous commentary, here, on the blog of the person that POLITICO says in one of America’s most IMPORTANT PEOPLE.
We who are following the REALITY of the war on public education, are not the least bit interested in HRC’s emails, or ANYTHING that you have to say, now that you have proven that you are impervious to facts .
Go to a social media blog where anti-social commentary is the rule, or to twitter where facts have no sway and verbal bullying is so much fun.
Diane does he best to report the facts. I don’t always agree with her but my admiration is HUUUGE! Bullying Diane just won’t cut it here.
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Toni,
Ridiculous comment.
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Whoever you are Toni…you comment is disgusting and ignorant. You are typical of the deplorables…and I am worried that our country is full of Trump slime.
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I would invite colleagues who are psychologists to comment on whether tRump might be a closet latent or active homosexual since he has this need to demean women to seem manly.
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It never ends: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-groper-in-chief.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region
Wonder how many abortions he has paid for?
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From the Voice of America:
http://www.voanews.com/a/us-trump-react/3542033.html
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I recall his initial response was to “punish” women that had an abortion.
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Ellen, homosexual tendencies don’t lead to this behavior. I’m more concerned his hatred of women stems from a serious personality disorder. He lacks empathy and self-control. His response is always personal and disproportional.
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The false equivalency never ends with the Clinton-haters. Trump bragged about physically assaulting women.
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Bill Clinton had the decency to be ashamed when his infidelities were made public. Trump (and his surrogate Guiliani) immediately responded, “everybody does it.” Trump is literally shameless. Character does not change. This man Trump is proud of his sexual conquests and truly believes that he can gripe or grab any woman he wants. In his twisted mind, women are his sex toys.
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R U that dumb that you do not see how offensive this is?
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Bullying Diane? I guess you’ve never consoled anyone who was truly bullied. The bullying card is the new knee jerk reaction. I too am paying attention to the war on public education. I’ve just come to a different conclusion than you. Hillary and democrats like Pres Obama, John King, Arne Duncan and Andrew Cuomo are also the enemies of public education. They are no better than the republicans–they just pretend to be.. I’m not impervious to facts. I just draw different conclusions from the facts. You don’t have to agree with me or like me for that matter but you have to accept that I have as much of a right to voice my opinions on this blog as you do.
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Jane,
I have criticized Obama, Duncan, King, and others who have set themselves against public schools and teachers. I doubt there is any blog that has been more outspoken on the subjects of privatization, high-stakes testing, and teacher-bashing.
But as strongly and passionately as I feel on these subjects, I will vote enthusiastically for Hillary. She may be as bad on education as Obama, and if she is, I will fight her.
But education is not the only issue that matters. There is also climate change, gun control, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, international relations, income inequality, and many other crucial issues where Trump will take us back before the New Deal. No part of his tax plan, for example, would affect his own taxes or diminish his wealth. He is against carried interest, as is she, which benefits hedge fund managers. But he won’t touch the write offs for real estate moguls like himself.
Add in his ludicrous claim that he will build a border wall and Mexico will pay for it; his promise to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants; his promise to choose right wing Supreme Court justices who will roll back Roe v. Wade and gay rights and strengthen Citizens United.
Whether you like Hillary is irrelevant. What matters to me is that Trump is a fascist, a vengeful lunatic, and an aging pervert.
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To Toni, Jane, and others who whine that, “Hillary Clinton hurt women, too!”, look at this:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/06/america-rising-now/pro-trump-super-pac-compares-bill-clinton-cosby-at/
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Lewinsky wasn’t a victim of unwanted advances, but according to her own account was an enthusiastic participant. That’s the difference. Their language is unimportant.
Both men were unfaithful. The difference is that the Donald shamelessly bragged over radio about his extra marital exploits as recently as 2005, while Bill does not brag, but instead expresses genuine and specific contrition.
Trump’s “I’m sorry if I offended” was all he could muster after his colleagues forced him to read from a teleprompter script they crafted.
In fact, he’s on record saying he’s never asked for forgiveness because he’s never done anything worth apologizing for.
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Is he running for president? Oh, I forgot, you are confused.
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I am disgusted by Trump and his supporters. I’ve been in many locker rooms, bars, man-caves, fraternities and NEVER talked about women in such violent, demeaning terms. First of all, it could be someone’s sister or girlfriend and you would lose a few teeth and see flashing lights on your trip to the floor. Second, the guys that did talk like that are generally seen as weird, perverse, and not in any way normal. Sorry Trump, but most men do not think of women in those terms and see them as equals.
But now I’m searching more on Trump. Read this chilling account. If true, we are in bigger trouble than anyone imagines.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
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I believe we still haven’t seen the worst of Trump yet.
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I’m surprised this story isn’t investigated further. It follows a pattern of behavior and I’d like to know if credible as any trial won’t happen until after the election. I never would have thought Bill Cosby was a different person. Live long enough and a person believes anything is possible regarding human behavior.
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Vale Math, there’s more detail here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/the-billionaire-pedophile-who-could-bring-down-donald-trump-and-hillary-clinton.html
HuffPost seems a bit breathless, though I agree with them that at least the fact of the recent lawsuit filing should be reported in mainstream media. But as the Beast points out, tho Trump was clearly an Epstein buddy back in the day, any tarring with the Epstein brush will bring out connections to Bill Clinton & the Clinton Foundation. I’m thinking pro-Trump evangelicals would be turned off, but bread-&-butter Trumpsters will see a wash w/ the Clinton connection.
As to credibility, tho I was ready to believe after reading the HP article, the full details provided in DB remind one of the $ to be made in settlement of such allegations (liberally handed out by Epstein), & the motivations of those who may be underwriting long-ago incidents coming to light just prior to presidential vote.
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bethree5,
If Bill Clinton and Donald Trump participated in Epstein’s parties as alleged, they should share a jail cell. It seems we are returning America to the days of Tiberius and Caligula.
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HE is not yet an embarrassment to his supporters in the Republican Party. I hope many more speak out and reject him for a host of reasons, and that much more can be learned about the facts of the matter in the report cited in Vale Math’s link.
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A Republican Congressman from Utah–Jason Chaffetz– withdrew his endorsement of Trump and said he didn’t want his 15-year-old daughter to read what this person said. http://www.businessinsider.com/jason-chaffetz-withdraws-endorsement-donald-trump-2016-10
Chaffetz is the same Congressman who raked JOHN King for his ineffective management of the Ed Dept and his lax ethical standards last fall
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Jason Chaffetz is an opportunist who doesn’t even know how to read a chart. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/01/jason-chaffetz/chart-shown-planned-parenthood-hearing-misleading-/ He is backing away from this because he knows that the people of Utah won’t stand for the kind of comments Trump makes. Trump was only running at about 35% in Utah before this happened (Utah is a VERY Republican state), and I expect that the numbers will go much lower after this. The majority of Utahns are looking at write-ins or third parties. I, personally, am voting for Clinton, and I hope she wins this state. The disgusting Republican leadership here, most of whom support Trump and have never spoken out against him, would burst into flames, which I would thoroughly enjoy.
Chaffetz just doesn’t want to lose re-election. If he was so disgusted by Trump’s comments, WHY didn’t he see the guy for who he truly was before this???? Anyone who’s been paying attention isn’t surprised by these revelations. Why is Chaffetz surprised?
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Jason Chaffetz is a far right wing tea bagger and LDS convert. He’s a family values Republican, who is vehemently against gay marriage, labels this a priority in such troubling times. He’s also against Planned Parenthood and would love to destroy it. And Trump lost this Neanderthal! Just shows how bad Trump is.
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What’s wrong with Chaffetz being LDS? I am also LDS.
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When I was in the Republican party, it was the party claiming the mantle of character and family values. Country was important as was civility. Can anyone imagine Reagan or George H.W. or even W. saying what Trump has said this election about women, disabled, POWs, gold star families?
Evangelicals are still supporting Trump. Women are supporting Trump. Hispanics are supporting Trump. Republicans are supporting Trump. Watching the death of the Grand Old Party is sad.
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I’d only change your very true (and frightening) second paragraph to add in the word SOME. SOME evangelicals, women, Hispanics and Republicans are supporting Trump. Thank goodness there are those in each category who are not.
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Those I know who are supporting him (college educated, professionals) are doing so strictly because they are absolutely convinced that he will be appoint a Supreme Court judge who will overturn roe vs wade. And they absolutely will not ever vote for Clinton. Most of them are former Cruz supporters.
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I love how they assume that Trump will appoint conservatives to the bench. The problem is that NO ONE, least of all Trump himself, has any idea whom he would appoint. I suspect he would appoint people who would benefit him financially. Can you IMAGINE what the Court could end up being? A bunch of frat boys who have a lot of money and no conscience. People’s insistence that Trump is important because of Supreme Court nominations are lying to themselves.
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Agreed. does anyone have any links to share, proving this?
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It is not the words, it is the attitude. Trump displays, nay, revels in a constant disrespect for all and sundry persons, men, women, his supporters as much as his opponents.
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With this latest, the damage to Trump’s reputation approaches, and perhaps exceeds Anthony Weiner’s crash-‘n-burn from Summer 2013.
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Trump is pure vile.
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He is a pervert,! period.
There is no way this man will be president in a nation where women have the vote.
Go get him girls… and send him on his way OUT!
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Trump has finally gone too far and the damage will be unfixable (he says hopefully). He can’t recover from this, can he?
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Away on vacation did not hear about this till a few hours ago. More important than what this shows about Trumps attitude about women, is what it shows about his attitude toward people he feels superior to. Which happens to be everyone on the planet .
The American people had better know that they are about to get grouped and abused by a pathetic megalomaniac , who will sit there laughin At their suffering.
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Groped
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Is there something about fame and power that makes powerful men feel impervious to the morals they swear to protect? Or are all people corrupt, and those in power just noticed because they live their lives in a fishbowl? And if men are corrupt because of their desires, what desires make women corrupt?
John Locke and Adam Smith were sure that people were not inherently corrupt, as Thomas Hobbes had asserted in Leviathan. Smith even suggested that we help each other along by serving our own interests. It seems to me that the “machine that goes of itself” envisioned by our founding fathers and influenced by the men mentioned above is in need of an overhaul.
Our election cycle now is so absent of discussion of policy that I have quit watching debates and reading about candidates. Republicans see no role for government at all and Democrats never fail to suggest a governmental solution if there is a problem. Both sides look to technological saviors for the solution of crises of the will.
The political earth is parched. No one will say the truth. The people are hurting because they will not help each other stop hurting. They would prefer to blame teachers instead of doing their homework. They would prefer to blame government instead of pressing for innovation in business. Others are the problem, not themselves. When will the waters of forgiveness and understanding wash away the sins of this adulterous generation?
Let us return to basic principles of goodness and decency. Let us educate our children, who deserve nothing less. Let us all work hard to make our county great, just, moral, and admired by a world that used to see us as a light to other nations. Let us admit our flaws and work to repent from them. Let us embrace each other and find common ground.
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“Is there something about fame and power that makes powerful men feel impervious to the morals they swear to protect?”
I look forward to a return of sanity, when folks look to a president to be not a celebrity but a hard-working, long-experienced [many-times elected!] leader of his party, whose goals & ethics synch with the current mood of the country.
Since JFK, too many times the country has encouraged candidates who are good-looking &/or well-spoken orators, lacking that crucial combination of public-good ideals with the bipartisan-deal-making skill that comes from long govtl experience. Those good-looking orators who have had careers dumped or sullied by sexual scandal (Gary Hart, Jack & Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton) have that sort of charismatic personality lacking in impulse-control that can be characteristic of those capable of withstanding constant media scrutiny and regular rejection/ defeat: the same CV as actors/ entertainers (think Reagan).
Trump is just our first actor/ entertainer/ celebrity candidate to attempt election without experience in elections or governance. There will be more, if the voting populace continues to confuse entertainers with leaders. Perhaps we should consider a shift to a parlamentarian system like those where a figurehead is backed by an actual president.
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This is a man(?) who talked about dating his own daughter, Time for the GOP to wave the white flag. Time for the evangelicals to take a shower. Time for the Deplorables to get out while the gettin’s good.. Time for America to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Time for a Trump to pick a new theme song, courtesy of Jim Morrison:
“Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I’ve got some friends inside
When the music’s over
When the music’s over
When the music’s over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights”
Good night and good riddance you twisted sleazebag.
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“Twisted sleazebag.” That’s one I’ve got to use!!! Mind if I use that wonderful turn of phrase?
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Please do.
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“At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Nope, the man is bereft of decency amongst a plethora of deficiencies. Don’t even dare to suggest that Hillary is equivalent to Trump in any way, shape or form. She was not my first choice by a long mile but the alternative is unacceptable.
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Furniture shopping with Trump, Stewie from Family Guy, and Saddam Hussein. Get the gold one, no, that one needs more gold.
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Anyone here who believes the Democratic Party is the answer to anything is delusional. The debt Obama has racked up is staggering. The destruction of the health insurance market is obscene. In New York State our Democratic Party governor has done his best to destroy the teaching profession as we know it and weaken public schools by favoring the charters. The Democratic Party controlled Assembly has passed all of Governor Cuomo’s proposals into law.
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FUT,
It is hard to tell a Democrat from a Republican in Jersey as well. Democrats were running over each other to endorse Christie in the last gubernatorial election. We now bear witness to the circus of the Bridgegate trial. In all likelihood Christie will skate. Since Christie is not as rich as Trump, he may not have had as many opportunities to abuse women in his personal life, but he has more than made up for it by forcing teachers to pay for their own exploitation. It remains to be seen if Christie will succeed in presenting Trump as a candidate better prepared in the second debate than the first.
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STAND BY YOUR MAN~
Congresswoman Michelle Bachman stands by her man, nonchalantly dismissing the latest Trump audio as just harmless “Bad Boy” talk:
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MICHELLE BACHMAN: (dismissive tone) “Well, this is (just) ‘Bad Boy’ talk, and of course, this is what (Hilary) wants everyone to talk about. She doesn’t want anybody to talk about her betrayal of America’s national security secrets. … If anyone understands ‘Bad Boy’ talk, Hilary Clinton understands ‘Bad Boy’ talk. She engages in a certain amount of it herself, I bet.”
CHRIS MATTHEWS: “So this (audio of Trump’s crude remarks) doesn’t affect your voting (for Trump)?”
MICHELLE BACHMAN: “My voting (for Trump)? Are you kidding?! Absolutely not! I want to make sure that there’s jobs in this country, and there’s only one candidate who will do that, and that’s Donald Trump?”
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It gets even better when another guest, Joy Reed, host of MSNBC’s “A.M. Joy”, brings up Bachman’s invoking God as the force that “raised up” Trump to be the candidate:
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JOY REED: “You, Congresswoman, back on August 30th of this year, you said on a show called ‘THE BRODY FILE,’ that ‘God raised up Donald Trump’, that ‘Donald Trump had been raised up by God to be the Republican nominee.’
“And you went on to say, ‘God lifts up whom He will, and takes down whom He will.’
“So it seems to me, just based on your own past statements, this was either done to Donald Trump by himself, by David Farenhold, by somebody at Access Hollywood, or by God. And I wonder if you now believe that ‘God has taken down whom He will.’ ”
MICHELLE BACHMAN: “I think quite clearly, what is going to happen, is that on the first Tuesday in November, people are going to take a real strong look at where America is at, and where they want America to be, not just in a broad way, but for them personally… (goes on to portray America in crisis … blah-blah-blah … ).”
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Bachman later tries to make the argument that this is Trump’s “personal business”, and that people should simply ignore it, and focus on the election
Fat chance of that happening!
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How can Bachman, as a woman and a Christian, stand by Trump? this is totally bizarre.
Here’s a bit from NEW YORK Magazine, where Trump shares his wisdom on how to interact with the fairer sex:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-hate-216539
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“11. On how to treat women
“In a NEW YORK Magazine profile, published in November 1992, a year after Trump divorced his first wife, Ivana, Trump was quoted dispensing his wisdom about how to handle the fairer sex.
” ‘You have to treat ’em like sh#%,’ Trump said in the article to friend Philip Johnson, who responded, ‘You’d make a good mafioso.’
“Trump’s response: ‘One of the greatest.’ ”
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So Trump proudly embraces comparison of himself to a mafia don, and finds that flattering? Aren’t all those guys sociopaths and mass-murders and thieves and on and on?
In contrast, Trump’s daughter Ivanka claims otherwise. Here’s the following in her Democratic Convention speech:
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INVANKA TRUMP: “MY FATHER not only HAS THE strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the KINDNESS AND COMPASSION that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.”
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Is anyone anywhere listening to what Michele Bachman has to say?
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Maybe Fix News. Except for Megyn Kelly, Fox is a Trump propaganda channel
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I am a playwright and I know something about how character is revealed.
You see, there is NO narrative in most plays. The only way to know the intentions and the personality of a character is to hear him speak and see what he does.
Trump reveals himself, over and over, but the political hacks that run for office BELEIVE that it is they who create the narrative, and we should ignore the reality.
Thus we get the incessant rant about who crooked Hillary is, so we should ignore the astonishing career that her intelligence and determination enabled.
Bachman is a fraud… her words issue from a vacant intellect… ignore her.
As for him, all of us here know what he is… a sick perverted male, looking for praise from his father that never came, and GOD ONLY KNOWS what his relationship with his mother was… we do not hear a word about her.
He actually needs a stain a mental hospital.
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GO Get Him Girls. Women vote! Show Trump what we think of him. Make it a landslide for Hillary! Someone should put that on the back of a T-shirt, which has on the front HANDS OFF!
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Crude language isn’t the real issue. His assumption that all women want his forced kisses and crotch grabs reveals he thinks like a rapist.
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Don’t miss this one by John Oliver on the damage done by this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFnAmvy8gdI
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I am going to go out on a limb and say your father grabed your mothers p….
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I have noticed that in the past few weeks the blog has some strange new commenters. They claim they were for Bernie. They hate Hillary so much that they are voting for Trump. Bernie is voting for Hillary but these alleged supporters prefer a fascist and sexual pervert to Hillary. Excuse me, but I don’t think these are Bernie supporters. They are Trump trolls.
I guess I should feel complimented that the blog is seen as important enough to infiltrate.
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I was for Bernie. I worked for him from the start, and went money.
When he did what he did, I realized that such a brilliant honest man must have learned something that made him do what he did. Instead of going down in smoke, he lives to fight another day, and is doing so behind the scenes, supporting grassroots candidates every day. I know, I get the Revolution alerts from the people who ran his campaign.
I hear all the ‘he deserted us” how could he do that to me. Yeah, it is ALL about them.
They would have trusted him to be president but not to make a decision like he did.
Supporters of Trump ignore the reality of who he is, and we can understand their ignorance…. but when they come to a blog like this, mistaking it for a social blog where the can shoot off their mouths and relieve the boredom of their lives by spouting nonsense, they are making a big mistake. We, who watch and listen to children, know tantrums when we hear them.
This is a place where serious people deal with serious issues –people who deal with OBSERVABLE REALITY, people who are not impervious to evidence and facts, people who did not buy the big CON.
My advice, ignore them, they only want to provoke an argument to get their jollies. Let them talk to your hand.
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