It can be confusing, tracking the multiple lawsuits journalist E. Jean Carroll filed against Donald Trump, who sexually abused her in the 90s and then lied about it. This is no doubt why U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote a brief that bluntly laid out the main takeaway: Trump raped Carroll, as the word “rape” is commonly understood.
“The fact that Mr. Trump sexually abused — indeed, raped — Ms. Carroll has been conclusively established,” Kaplan wrote in a court filing. This document allows journalists to use the R-word when discussing what Trump did to Carroll in a department store changing room in New York.
Considering that they back Trump, you’d think Republican women would avoid acting like they think rape is a bad thing.
So considering that they back Trump, you’d think Republican women would avoid acting like they think rape is a bad thing, much less something to get worked up over. Yet Republicans in the MAGA era have embraced total shamelessness as a political weapon. That means Republican women gleefully exploit sexual violence, crying giant crocodile tears over rape and other gendered violence, when in reality, they do everything they can to screw over actual victims.
I point out we keep going right by compromising with the establishment party nominee and we need to vote third party but everyone in threads where I’ve done *this act like I’m Satan and say “THIS IS THE ELECTION WHERE THE DEMOCRAT VOTE IS MOST IMPORTANT! IT’S NOT THE TIME! A THIRD PARTY CAN’T WIN!” for nearly thirty years (I was a meeting who backed Clinton. I’m reformed).
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Yea, there are morons everywhere. Voting third party is literally just a vote for the other guy in first past the post. Even if we magically somehow made neither Joe Biden nor Trump past 50%, politicians just get to pick, and they would NEVER pick the third party spoiler candidate.
Keep in mind a lot of rabid pushback against the left is literally Russian and Chinese political trolling. You don’t have to take everyone saying something stupid seriously.
Hell, even if they’re being honest, they’re still dumb. An idea doesn’t have to buzz around and bite like a fly. Ignore 'em if they troll or are as dumb as a 13 year old that just learned “conservative” is also a political word.
I hear you. I need to let this soak in.
The US needs a a legitimate grassroots movement that is well-funded (fucked if I know how to be honest, hopefully it’s just a lot of small donations from regular people) that consistently lobbies for voting reform. The following changes should be up for debate:
I’m sure there are plenty of others but if all of those things were managed to be achieved, the body politic’s state and Overton Window of the US would shift dramatically.
Your list is decent, though some are quite our-in-the-sky. We are working on some of these. The recent Supreme Court ruling on keeping trump on the ballot should help in a fight against the electoral college, but probably won’t with the current court. Which is another thing we need major reform to, term limits and financial disclosure and conflict of interest LAWS.
We have the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which could get us out of the electoral college problems if a few more states join. But amending the constitution seems impossible at this stage of our country (and probably has been for the last 40 years at least actually).
The primaries are for voting 3rd party and the general is for falling in line in a FPtP system. It sucks, but it’s reality. Voting for anyone but the better candidate in the general directly benefits the lesser candidate. It’s your prerogative to vote how you want, but it’s important to note the above facts when doing so to be best informed.
Ahh, “hate the have, not the player!”
When there are no players, there is no game. Thanks for proving my point.
All I proved is that your point has no merit. Like I said, how you vote is your choice, and that’s great, but there are implications to who you vote for. You can either accept the reality that in a FPtP system, there are two options, or you can live in imagination land and pretend that your actions mean something that they don’t.
If your moral compass tells you that voting for a third party candidate is what you need to do, then do it. Just know that it’s also a vote for Trump, and if you somehow think that’s a better option then voting for Biden, then you never had a moral compass to begin with.
To address your analogy, there are players in the game, 2 of them, and you’re talking about voting for the ref.