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People downplay that Access Hollywood tape, but he wasn’t joking. He was completely serious. In his mind, he could - and did – literally grab women’s pussies because he thought they’d just let him do it.

Here’s the thing, as an SA survivor, there are several natural reactions to situations like that – fight, flight, or freeze. In close quarters, you often can’t flee, and with a large attacker, you can’t always fight. Freezing is a very common response to sexual assault.

So all these years, when he says ‘they just let you do it’, he’s been describing his victims’ freeze response. You don’t have to be a star for that to be your victim’s reaction. And yet his followers and the media have turned it into a joke.

I think I can speak for many SA survivors when I say that’s disgusting, appalling, and hurtful.

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That's the most important thing to remember about all this. They know he's an abuser. They know he brags about it. They know all the despicable things he's done.

And it's either unimportant to them, or they've managed to become so psychologically twisted that they actually like it.

We have a society being dominated by deeply, deeply broken people right now.

Conservative morality isn't based on the things it claims to be.

The foundations are these:

1. Social hierarchy is natural and desirable.
2. The hierarchy is asserted by selective rule-enforcement
3. The game is zero-sum

They literally don't believe that rules should bind high-status people; that's what makes them powerful - and thus admirable - in their eyes.

Rules are only enforced downwards, protecting the strong from the actions of the weak - and violating that principle is the only sin.

That's why they're so hung up on race / gender / sexuality: those things are caste markers to them, and determine the right and proper role for people in their eyes. If someone steps out of their pre-ordained caste, that's violating the hierarchy and eroding the rules that keep society ordered-therefore-safe, and therefore inherently immoral to them.

Every time people post another scoop on Trump getting away with shit, it just affirms his kingly, even godly status in their eyes.

The only thing that can bring him down is defeat and failure, being subjected to rules and forced to submit to them, showing him to be low-status and thus not admirable.

And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.

THERE’S NEVER BEEN A SECRET TO THE PERSON HE IS. HE SAID IT OUT LOUD AND STILL BECAME PRESIDENT.

It’s not like people aren’t listening, it’s that those that vote for him actually think the same way and it makes them proud to hear it when it’s said

The worst part is how many women are in the MAGA movement. And they don't care.

MAGA = Bad Humans.

You really are a shit person if you support this trash. No excuses, nothing can justify it, you're just a piece of shit.

He was elected despite being on tape saying "grab em by the pussy, you can do anything"

They aren't going to start caring about women suddenly. Women are just property to the base and they are expected to vote according to their owners. At least that's what it looks like!

After someone said "So, who cares? He's the president" I decided to cut all contact and never speak to them again.

They know, they don't care. The cruelty is always the point.

Because if they investigate him, they'd have to investigate all of them.

It's not really a surprise coming from the party of hate filled losers, incels and criminals. I expect no less and hope that voters remember come election time. It is long past due to send the Republicans back to under the rocks from which they came

We’ve understood this forever. What MAGA people all have in common is that they’re terrible people. It’s the seven deadly sins all rolled up into one voting block.

Misogyny Arouses GOP Arseholes.

Fascism. They fundamentally believe that inequality based on inherent identity is morally correct. And identity based on some myth. That is why capitalism, science denial to further deregulation, blind or fanatical faith and fascism work so well together.

MAGA sees women as property. 2nd class citizens. Subhuman. They are to be possessed and done with as you please. The primary tenet of conservatism is that natural hierarchies exist. Conservatives believe men are inherently "better" than women. Period.

"It's an American ideal that we treat women with respect. Also, TRUMP THAT BITCH"

He's still talking about that wall he couldn't finish or make Mexico pay for. And he's gonna drill drill drill and re-defund the EPA again. How the f do you explain to your kid that 50 million, scary low for USA to get elected, opted for the grab guy again?

His fascist supporters love it, because it puts women "in their place" and they want to return to a time (not too long ago) when all of society swept abusive misogyny under the rug.

I mean, why else would they constantly demonize feminism?

It's not even that they don't care; they actually like it, presumably because it legitimizes what they also already do.

They’re degenerates and trump is their king.

Its almost like you could ask the old question "are you still beating your wife?" A yes answer gets even more votes.