Women do not see it that way, and that could matter this fall.
    • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Still confused why that fiasco didn’t end his political career forever.

      • wolfkin@mastodon.social
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        2 months ago

        @Artyom @seaQueue The American political system is in many ways supposed to be self-correcting. There’s no real mechanisms. Except that which are enforced. I always used to wonder about this when learning about politics in school. It seemed like anyone could do anything but I just assumed everyone was smarter than me. So what happens is people do things and they expect you to be so embarrassed you bow out. And that’s fine for most people except extremely insane people like Trump.

        • wolfkin@mastodon.social
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          2 months ago

          @Artyom @seaQueue American politics is literally everything you see in every heist/longcon/grifter movie. If you act like you belong, people will just assume you belong. Donald Trump didn’t act like he was guilty, so people just assumed he wasn’t guilty. Doesn’t matter how much evidence you throw at them. If he was wrong and guilty he would have left. And that’s without getting into the financial incentives other people have to lie and play along.

      • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women. ~Mary Wollstonecraft

        Let’s just say his followers are all of a type.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Comey came out days later and said Hillary was under Federal investigation while completely omitting that Trump was under federal investigation.

        This fully eclipsed the grab them by the pussy tape.

      • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Cuz it was locker room talk about whore women that let you do exactly what he said. (Definitely not defending this guy).

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it takes a whole lot of misogyny for a man to look at this dude’s actions and statements over decades in the public eye and still arrive at the opinion that Donald fucking Trump respects women.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        None of them accept facts. They say they do but they reject them. Half of my friends I’ve known since before politics mattered to us ended up on the misinformed Rubepublican side. If you give them facts (like adoptions rose by 52% when gay marriage was legalized in the 90’s) they just reject them or ad another criteria. The guy we were arguing with said gay couples don’t make a difference because older children still have a hard time getting adopted, what?

        These people aren’t interested in good faith arguments or any evidence presented. They’ve figured out subconsciously that reality does not align with their viewpoints and are primed to reject it. Idk what you do when a good chunk of your population gets like this but we need to do something to get these people out of these harmful misinformation circles.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s just it though, they don’t look at decades of history, or even what happened yesterday. They only look at what trump and friends tell them in that moment. Whatever they were most recently told us what they believe. That’s how they can flip opinions so rapidly. So, if Fox or Trump said that trump respects women right before they took this poll, then dag nabbit, he does!

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I DON’T respect this woman and imagine she doesn’t respect herself if she puts her name on an article with that headline

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s also stupid because Trump doesn’t really respect anyone regardless of gender. He just regards people as furniture.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      He regards them the same way a carpenter regards nails when he’s framing a house, assuming the carpenter has a deeply rooted hatred for his job and the tools required to complete it.