There were lawsuits by previous Trump / Epstein victims, who were suppressed via mob-style threats against the women to stay silent. The lawsuits didn’t happen, but the affair made the news. The public knew he was a child sex abuser in 2016.
Curiously, the kind of scandals that ran roughshod over Bill Clinton (over consensual sexual activity) seemed to slide off Trump, hence the resurrected moniker Teflon Don.
John Oliver’s LWT presentation on Trump as a 2016 presidential candidate illustrated the issue well: Yes, Hillary Clinton has some scandals and shady dealings, and lets say this bowl of raisins represents those matters. <Raisins start raining from the rafters of the LWT set> This would be the proportionate number of raisins necessary to represent Trump’s scandals.
Trump lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College – that is, the vote-weighting mechanism baked into the Constitution of the United States, in order to favor the states with slavery-dependent economies, that we’ve known for over a century needed to be fixed and wasn’t. The 2000 election was a clarion call to that effect.
And it was exactly as bad as we expected to be.
Reasonable, sober Americans should have known by the history of Reagan through Obama never to elect a Republican to office again, but then put a lot of pressure on the Democrats for election reform. Trump’s election by majority in 2024 demonstrates a critical flaw in the human species
It may be a matter of multiple critical flaws. I mean rich dudes with too much money even for themselves and their families can’t seem to stop trying to make more money. It may mean we cannot create a stable government that serves the public, or one that is resistant to people who go renegade and try to consolidate power.
I’m thinking about it like a programming bug. I got nuttin’ yet.
There were lawsuits by previous Trump / Epstein victims, who were suppressed via mob-style threats against the women to stay silent. The lawsuits didn’t happen, but the affair made the news. The public knew he was a child sex abuser in 2016.
Curiously, the kind of scandals that ran roughshod over Bill Clinton (over consensual sexual activity) seemed to slide off Trump, hence the resurrected moniker Teflon Don.
John Oliver’s LWT presentation on Trump as a 2016 presidential candidate illustrated the issue well: Yes, Hillary Clinton has some scandals and shady dealings, and lets say this bowl of raisins represents those matters. <Raisins start raining from the rafters of the LWT set> This would be the proportionate number of raisins necessary to represent Trump’s scandals.
Trump lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College – that is, the vote-weighting mechanism baked into the Constitution of the United States, in order to favor the states with slavery-dependent economies, that we’ve known for over a century needed to be fixed and wasn’t. The 2000 election was a clarion call to that effect.
And it was exactly as bad as we expected to be.
Reasonable, sober Americans should have known by the history of Reagan through Obama never to elect a Republican to office again, but then put a lot of pressure on the Democrats for election reform. Trump’s election by majority in 2024 demonstrates a critical flaw in the human species
It may be a matter of multiple critical flaws. I mean rich dudes with too much money even for themselves and their families can’t seem to stop trying to make more money. It may mean we cannot create a stable government that serves the public, or one that is resistant to people who go renegade and try to consolidate power.
I’m thinking about it like a programming bug. I got nuttin’ yet.