I Believe Russia Is Pushing Sex Scandals to Distract the Press

[McCamy Taylor]

And it is working. The closer Mueller gets to indicting the big players, the more Russia Mob/KGB blackmail data will be leaked to the press, the more victims will be pressured to make statements, the more cum stained dresses we Americans will be forced to examine as we try to wade through the cesspool of slur and scandal in order to find the real threat to our democracy.

If the press gave a rat's ass about sexism, they would not have devoted pages of coverage to Hillary Clinton's cleavage. The press does not love women. The press loves SEX.

Shame on us for allowing ourselves to be distracted. Are a bunch of Russian bloggers posing as Americans smarter than we are? Are they sitting around a desk somewhere saying "Those fat lazy Americans are so easy to fool. All we have to do is distract them with sex"?

[BigmanPigman]

1. The Russians and GOP are interchagable at this point.

Distraction, division, diversion...DISGUSTING!

[LenaBaby61]

27. The Russians and GOP are interchangeable at this point.

+ A gazillion

[dalton99a]

40. Bingo.

[snooper2]

52. these stories coming out about abuse have nothing to do with Russia..

You think Russia has the dirt on every American alive LOL?

[RKP5637]

2. And MSM loves money, and sex sells. So, distractions abound like shock waves. It does seems

to be happening all at once.

[McCamy Taylor]

5. Too much. It is excessive and smacks of desperation.

Left on its own, the American press will latch onto one or two juicy sex scandals. Someone with a tin ear when it comes to what entertains Americans is throwing these stories out so fast that people are soon going to become bored. The American mainstream media would never make this mistake. Who has an enormous army of bloggers pretending to be Americans? Russia.

[RKP5637]

9. Yes, it is excessive, like it was batched up ready to go or something. n/t

[rzemanfl]

10. +1 n/t

[murielm99]

25. Yes, we are getting into overkill.

I want this to be a period of time when things change. People will start to ignore this if there is too much of it.

Let's concentrate on Roy Moore. I think he is the main event.

[roamer65]

3. I would agree with you.

Most definitely.

[onenote]

4. Does that include Roy Moore? And the Ohio Republican caught with another guy?

Does it include the increased attention being given to the allegations of Trump's sexual assaults and the tape?

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Those are the types of stories that distracts Democrats.

Old Bush Sr. trick----create a fire so that the smoke will obscure a more politically dangerous fire.

[onenote]

12. So are you saying these things didn't happen or that the women who came forward

are just dupes of the Russians?

[Qutzupalotl]

19. If Russians have kompromat, all they would have to do

is tip off reporters, tell them where to look and what to look for. Instant distraction.

[LenaBaby61]

28. Totally .....

Agree!

[flamingdem]

6. Yes, good insight, and we see the increase in trolls here on DU

and on social media everywhere right now.

Koch Bros paying for their payoff, among others.

[defacto7]

7. Agree

[B2G]

11. Did Russians start #metoo also? Nt

[Upthevibe]

13. Very interesting.....Rachel's show led off with the Charlie Rose story...

[True Dough]

31. Good point! I don't believe for a second

that the Russians were behind Harvey Weinstein being outed for being a such a swine. Kevin Spacey either. Louis CK either. Charlie Rose either. Andy Dick either. Ben Affleck either. Dustin Hoffman either. Charlie Sheen either. Brett Ratner either. Jeffrey Tambour either. Jeremy Piven either. Matthew Wiener either. Tom Sizemore either. Roman Polanski either.

As it turns out, many men in positions of power and authority have long been taking advantage of women within their sphere of influence. Exploiting, harassing and assaulting these women. And now that there's finally been a seismic shift to hold those men accountable, we are supposed to start blaming the underhanded Russians for pushing sex scandals?

Sorry, but this issue extends well beyond a couple of spurious claims.

My rant isn't directed at you B2G, more at OP and others too quick to write this much-needed purge of deviant bullies.

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. I don't think the Russians or the GOP began this tidal wave, but...

I think they see an opportunity and know how to pervert it to their own ends when they have one.

This issue extends WAY beyond these spurious claims and we're seeing just the tip of the tsunami. My fear is for the exploitable who can be convinced they should accuse and the innocent who become victims of those accusations. I do think people will be unfairly swept up in this.

I'm a victim of sexual harassment and assault and worry about that a lot. False accusations will make it harder for real victims to be sincerely heard. I'm furious with the second woman to accuse Franken (fair photo). My bullshit meter is clanging even more loudly with her than it did with Tweeden.

[lagomorph777]

46. I agree with you about the Franken claims, esp the 2nd one.

Seems pretty hollow.

[Nevernose]

48. Yes. Kind of.

The story was “Trump kids avoid prosecution by bribing DA.”

The Weinstein part was just extra evidence that the DA was being bribed by rich psychopaths, but it was the “sex” part that made an impression with the TV media.

#MeToo I think was an afterthought. Fortunate, but I’m too cynical to think whoever started that snowball could possibly have had good intentions for women.

[Snake Plissken]

14. I think advertisers pulling out of Fox News for Hannity setting up a Child molester defense league

combined with O'Reilly's low history of sexual harassment lawsuit settlements scared the shit out of the right wing media primarily Fox News and they hired a damage control scumbag squad to go after anyone they can who is not associated with them, Trump or the GOP. I expect to see a few people coming forward every single day until Alabama's special election.


And as all this goes on, nobody in the media will mention why Trump has not resigned yet for doing more than everyone else combined.

[KPN]

15. It does seem too coincidental that all

this shit is going on at the same time; not to mention it's in character with the shit storm that little fingered pussy grabber has always created around everything he is and has been involved in throughout his public existence. ... It will be joyous one day to see him buried, if he isn't cremated.

[leftstreet]

16. The allegations are assault and/or harassment, not 'sex'

Maybe I'm missing something

I thought the 'scandals' concerned unwanted sexual boundary violations

[Turbineguy]

17. It seems to be extremely successful.

The Democrats are outraged and the republicans are fine with it. Helping to divide.

[FuzzyRabbit]

18. Agree.

The Russians/Republicans know that Republican voters don't care what Republican politicians do. So Trump gets elected and Roy Moore wins the primary election. And Republicans are fine with both of them.

And the Russians/Republicans know that Democrats insist their candidates be pure as the wind driven snow and will immediately discard any Democrat who is merely accused of wrongdoing.

[C Moon]

20. Yep. And the REALLY messed up part is that the GOP is going along with it.

This all went into high gear after Trump got back from his "Asia" trip (which was actually his trip to meet with Putin for more help).
The GOP is a band of traitors.

[L. Coyote]

21. To distract us, the People. Republicans are using every distraction avaiable to steal a TRILLION $$$

[Morris64]

22. Tin foil alert

Do you really think the media wouldn’t otherwise latch on to sex scandals? This is THE JUICE of journalism today. The RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA is getting old especially when some of our own hired them to do digging.

[LenaBaby61]

33. I put nothing past Roger Stone, Bannon or that Ilk of cheating pigs.

I mean, who'd have thought that tRumputin, many in his cabinet of ghouls and family members would turn tReasonous and collude with the ruskies, or that most in the GOP were riding shotgun and cape for him? The GOP is still going to be voter-suppressing. The ruskies are still meddling and will continue meddling, and who knows what they'll come up with next for an encore? Voting machines are outdated, and can be hacked easily. There's that gerrymandering ruling from the the Supreme Court coming that will give Wisconsin and other states to thuglicans gerrymandering is once again reinstated. Very few positives have Dem voters way since November 2016, and as we know, those big 2018 mid-terms are barreling down upon us like a freight train.

Malcolm Nance Knew about the cyber-war the ruskies were launching against the USA. So did most of our Intel agencies.

[bahrbearian]

49. It is starting to seem so desperate to link every thing to Russia.

[blue-wave]

23. It seems the Russian tentacles have wound very deep in our society

So I would not be surprised if they are behind all this sex stuff. Even on this site, I see postings and comments that appear straight outta Breitbart. I hope our intelligence community starts pushing prosecutions soon!!!!!

[moda253]

24. The idea seems ssilly to me

What is going to happen? mueller is going to get distracted and stop doing his job?

[The Wielding Truth]

26. Maybe. They stopped Hillary from being elected and turned Trump into our President.

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It is a type of warfare. I would not put anything past them.

[boston bean]

42. Who got Hillary "elected"?

[The Wielding Truth]

55. Gee, BB. I didn't think that I typed that. I'm an IDIOT!

Thanks.

[LenaBaby61]

34. What is going to happen? mueller is going to get distracted and stop doing his job?

No, but if they can help and muddy the waters, keep voters off-balance, confused and Democrats fighting, they've done their job. They were doing that before all of these seemingly coordinated allegations of sexual misconduct started coming to the forefront.

As others have said, I put nothing past the ruskies and putin, Roger Stone, Bannon, the GOP and of course against tReasonous, putin-loving tRump.

[MadDAsHell]

29. Encouraging women to stand up for themselves is now selling sex. Wow.

Politics is important, but can we put it aside for even half a fucking second to defend those who need it? To be Democrats?

It’s the repukes who are supposed to be all politics, all the time. That’s not supposed to be us; the people’s party should, you know, care about people....

[flamingdem]

30. The Russian influence is to add chaos - and they are also succeeding with the false equivalencies

Pedo Moore = Al Franken

NYET

[iluvtennis]

32. And I believe the sex stuff is being injected by Russian trolls at request of Trump. nt

[Initech]

35. The MAGATs were out in full force tonight on Twitter.

I've been trying to get as many of them kicked off as possible. Man, some of the hateful shit I've seen them post has been unreal.

[True Dough]

36. Robert Mueller is continuing his investigation regardless

Perhaps the media can be preoccupied, to some degree, with the deluge of accusations. But to suggest we cannot deal with multiple issues simultaneously is to give very little credit to the average person.

My gosh, what about your child's poor academic performance at school, that promotion you're trying to get at work, mom's worsening dementia that's going to land her in a nursing home and your car's transmission acting up. You can work at all of those things without neglecting the other three.

Same goes for processing rampant sexual harassment/assault and keeping an eye on Dolt 45's agenda.

[Swedish Alicia]

37. What you say does not make sense.

What person is not going to hear and notice the results of the Mueller investigation simply because there are sexual abuse stories too?

When someone is indicted by Mueller the press will report this as their main story even if 844577754444892 politicians and actors have new allegations against them.

[Kablooie]

38. I'll bet a slew of Democrats are accused and virtually no Republicans.

If Democrats support all of these accusations it could sink the party.
It's easy to get one or two women to accuse a man of low level annoyance sexism and call it harassment.
I'm not saying this shouldn't be exposed but it shouldn't if its instigated for political reasons.
It's a way to get us to destroy our own because of our sensitivity to the issue.

Beware of being manipulated even if the cause is just.

[LisaL]

39. Nice to be able to blame Russia for everything.

It's not Russia that is pushing these things, it's US media that is now actively digging for dirt.

[blueinredohio]

41. I paid attention at first now I change the channel if sexual harassment is mentioned.

Seems it's getting to be everyone now. I have a picture from Christmas years ago with my uncle dressed as Santa. In the picture it looks exactly like he's trying to touch my breast. I could say he was but that would be a lie.

[GoCubsGo]

43. Maybe, but the republicans don't need the Russians for this kind of thing.

They're perfectly capable of coming up with and executing this kind of shit on their own. And, as you point out, our sorry excuse for the media will happily aid and abet them. I lived through the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. We're seeing the same damn thing, only on steroids. Granted, I wouldn't put it past them to seek additional help from the Russians. Mueller's noose is tightening, and their grip on power in the Senate is slipping. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and those treasonous ratfuckers are not above seeking foreign help to stay in power.

[kentuck]

45. I think it is very possible...

They excel at division.

[spanone]

47. it's not distracting Mueller....and that's what counts

[Alea]

50. LOL - That's all I've got nt

[rzemanfl]

51. The people who AREN'T posting to this thread when they are all a twitter about the topic elsewhere

says a lot, but I don't dare name names.

[brooklynite]

53. Trashing

Unfounded conspiracy theories belong elsewhere

[Botany]

54. From as busy the Russian troll bots* were here on DU pushing "FrankenGate" ....

..... last week I have no doubt that the GOP/Russia is working the sex scandal thing
big time.


* Just my thought.

[jalan48]

56. I think we give Russia too much credit. I'd be more inclined to blame the American oligarchs.

They are the ones that stand to directly benefit from the new tax law that is currently being debated. I'm sure they love seeing it pushed to the back pages while the press focuses on sex scandals.