Sense & Decency

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[spanone]

1. add to that the lack of outrage for donald trump's accusers.

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2. Yep

[Kirk Lover]

3. He's right and Bakari Sellers needs to STFU

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[dalton99a]

4. It's a false equivalency aimed at the base

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5. MSNBC even

Calling Franken "groping".

I'm sick of paying for cable TV.
This just might be it for me.

[GoCubsGo]

9. It's also a bright, shiny object.

Anything to distract people from Moore, Trump, the House and Senate tax bills, the Mueller investigation, Sessions being caught in lies on the Senate floor (by Al Franken. Hmmmmmmm...), the reversal of the laws forbidding importation of big game trophies, and every other horror coming out of the party that controls the White House and both houses of Congress. However, this will all but be forgotten a week from now, when the next atrocity comes out. We might note even have to wait until next week, as today is Friday, and there are usually news dumps at the end of the day.

[Madam45for2923]

6. Another called it really shocking, saying, We were all naked.

According to interviews BuzzFeed News conducted with former Miss Teen USA contestants, Trump did just that in 1997. Four women who were competing in the pageant that year — including one who was 15 at the time — recalled that Trump walked into the dressing area while they were changing.

One of them called it “shocking” and “creepy” and said she rushed to cover herself. Another recalled that the contestants were “just scrambling to grab stuff… whatever garments they had.”

Another called it “really shocking,” saying, “We were all naked.”

“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, said.

Billado remembered Trump saying something like, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” Another who was 17 at the time recalled that it seemed Trump felt “it was his given right… because he owned the pageant.”

“At the time, you’re a teenager, you’re intimidated — it’s Donald Trump, he runs the pageant,” she said.

Another former contestant has told the same story. Tasha Dixon, who competed as Miss Arizona at age 18, told CBS2 LA, “He just came strolling right in, there was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked.” She added that they were in “a very physically vulnerable position.”

“Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant,” she added. “So there’s no one to complain to, everyone there works for him.”


https://thinkprogress.org/trump-beauty-pageants-naked-2dc4b6c6d507/

[Madam45for2923]

7. Teenagers had no one to complain to b/c he owned the pageant!

[Caliman73]

8. Republicans abandoned that a long time ago.

They went after Clinton because of an affair, after a 4 year investigation came up with nothing that they could impeach him for. Meanwhile Gingrich was engaged in the same adulterous behavior and he only resigned because the Republicans got hammered in an election and he was facing 85 ethics violations for such a sloppy job at trying to rig elections for Republicans. Who replaced him? Dennis Hastert the accused child molester. Which Republican served as Speaker after that? Tom "The Hammer" De Lay who also got caught up in scandal. This isn't something new. Republicans traded morality for power since Nixon went after the Dixiecrats who defected after Democrats pushed the Civil Rights Acts through in the late 60's.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Sad, but true.

It's so depressing.