arewethereyet Wrote:Last night I posted that I was/had voted Democrat and made the statement that once the "Grab 'em in the pussy" remark came to the fore, I was done and nothing has happened since to make be change my mind.
Got the most interesting take on that remark from someone I grew up with you called it "locker room talk" that happened 20 years ago when Trump didn't know he was being recorded. There's some spin right there.
Male locker room talk is mostly a myth created by women because women talk explicitly among themselves and thus think that men are like that. Women talk about everything while men are more discreet. Each sex assumes the opposite sex is just the way they are. So, women think men are explicit, and men think women are romantic. Eventually that becomes a stereotype that nobody questions. Even that Trump's so-called locker room talk was started by Melania, but what Trump did was talk about sexual assault.
Thumpalumpacus Wrote:He may himself go away, but other and smarter fascisti will not. And they know they have seventy or so million voters they can manipulate.
Maybe it does go away after Trump loses. Back during the Watergate days there were many people who saw Nixon as a victim and if Nixon railed them there could have been some sort of uprising or some similar mess, but he went away and it all quickly calmed down.
Now when it comes to some smart fascist (or even a smart Republican) I don't see that ever happening because in order to be a fascist you have to ultimately work against yourself. You have to be against a lot of stuff that make society function that no smart person would ever do. And it's hard to see how anyone could replace Trump in his abilities that he can say and do whatever he wants without any repercussions. Even Pence can’t get away with it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
