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speak easy

(12,595 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 02:49 AM Oct 2024

Trump: "I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not."

Trump Says He’ll Protect Women, ‘Like It or Not,’ Evoking His History of Misogyny

In recent months, Mr. Trump has boasted on social media and in his speeches that he would protect women in America by making their communities safer and by making sure they won’t “be thinking about abortion,” as he faces increasing backlash for appointing three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.

On Wednesday, he delivered similar remarks but added a new twist as he described onstage what he had told his advisers: “I said, well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.”

New York Times https://archive.md/9BPtV

Look who you made me do.
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Mike Nelson

(10,912 posts)
2. I saw him...
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 03:28 AM
Oct 2024

... say this, in a rally on CSPAN. It was shocking in how he stressed his point. Also, he comments on "migrant crime" and mentions most victims are women. If most were male, that would be better? I think he's trying to appeal to women. Probably, he meets with a bunch of advisors and pollsters who say, "Try to appeal to women." Like trying to teach your cat how to be more appealing to mice.

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TSExile

(3,363 posts)
6. Sick, unrepentant bastard.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 05:44 AM
Oct 2024

As someone who has endured sexual assault, these aren't dog whistles. They're air horns!!!

PA Democrat

(13,417 posts)
8. The women he has sexually assaulted can attest to the fact that he will do what he wants
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 05:58 AM
Oct 2024

whether the women like it or not.

madaboutharry

(42,027 posts)
10. Those words are the words of a serial sexual abuser.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 06:54 AM
Oct 2024

It breaks my heart every day that this despicable man is a candidate for President of The United States! I just can't bear it.

ScratchCat

(2,668 posts)
13. Agree whole heartedly
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 08:58 AM
Oct 2024
It breaks my heart every day that this despicable man is a candidate for President of The United States! I just can't bear it.


I'm with you. It makes no sense. I've said for two years that if he was even allowed to be the GOP candidate in 2024, America as we know it is over because tens of millions of people would invent reasons to support a man they know is unfit for the office. I cried watching January 6th, but I thought that was obviously the death nail. It just makes no sense that they wont throw this man to the curb.

Clouds Passing

(6,962 posts)
12. We don't need or want Dump's kind of "protection". He wont even wear a condom for crike's sake.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 08:57 AM
Oct 2024

Wounded Bear

(63,828 posts)
15. I'm a man and I thought that was cringeworthy to the extreme...
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:17 AM
Oct 2024


A more specific, misogynistic version of his "only I can protect you" bullshit.

karynnj

(60,777 posts)
16. That comment should be far far worse for Trump than Biden's comment for Harris
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:37 AM
Oct 2024

Trump's comment is 100 percent in line with his dictator/authoritarian comments and actually pair with his access Hollywood comment which also implies he can do things even if a woman disagrees.

The Biden comment was a poorly worded sentence that would have been completely ok IF IT WAS WRITTEN as there would be no ambiguity of possessive vs plural. However, Biden is NOT on the ballot and the reason he is NOT is because he was seen to be slipping. Biden has always been subject to gaffes, possibly because he has to work harder to say things to avoid stutters. In addition, all but the extreme MAGA see him as a good, genial man even if they disagree with his politics.

So, one controversy involves the Presidential nominee and fits CW about him. The second involves someone not on the ticket and the worst interpretation is absolutely NOT the CW, while the explanation, that he has gaffes and sometimes has some difficulty speaking fluidly is EXACTLY what concerned some people.

Though FOX may hope otherwise, I suspect the first, but not the second will resonate. I also thing it takes some chutzpah and lack of caution for Trump to emphasize anything to do with GARBAGE. after all, his comments on America as a garbage can are not ambiguous at all ... and fits who he is.

Evolve Dammit

(21,495 posts)
17. Don't make me hurt you.... He's fucking deranged and really hates women; unless it's just for sexual service?
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 04:43 PM
Oct 2024
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