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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is intentionally nominating sex offenders for high profile jobs for a reason.
He's sending a message to men (specifically, White men) that sexual assault will be overlooked and not a deal breaker for career advancement. He's sending a message to all women, "You're not safe from sexual assault. The only way that you will be safe is to get married."

Walleye
(37,846 posts)Response to Walleye (Reply #1)
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Yavin4
(36,936 posts)If they're married, then it's a crime.
Montauk6
(8,852 posts)It's the cult leader's creed after all.
Irish_Dem
(63,981 posts)ETA: When Putin invaded Ukraine he gave Russian troops large amounts of alcohol and viagra
with instructions to rape as many civilian women and children as possible.
This was done for a clear reason to send a message to Ukraine.
We are getting a similar message from Trump.
speak easy
(11,177 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11
Irish_Dem
(63,981 posts)ReRe
(11,208 posts)reads in full the historical article which you have linked to! Yes, it's a tad long, but it's
one of the most historically informative pieces I've read in a LONG time. It relates directly back
to the subject of sexual assault of German women by the Russian army back in 1945.
Thank you speak easy and The Guardian!!!!
jls4561
(1,982 posts)OMGWTF
(4,564 posts)More and more women are adopting the South Korean 4B movement -- no dating, no sex, no marriage, no babies. It's the only way to fight the patriarchy. Do not participate.
madaboutharry
(41,629 posts)By MoveOn. Friday, July 26 2024
RFK Jr: Its quite possible. Im 70 years old. Ive lived a very rambunctious life.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, MoveOn Political Action condemns Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for confirming that more accusations of sexual harassment and assault are likely to come out against him in the future.
In a one-on-one interview, CBS correspondent Warren Garrett probed RFK Jr. about allegations of sexual assault allegations lodged against him by a former babysitter for the Kennedy family.
https://front.moveon.org/rfk-jr-confirms-more-potential-sexual-assault-accusations-are-likely-in-the-future/
Karasu
(554 posts)RockRaven
(16,859 posts)by confirming these people. It is an assertion of dominance over Senate GrOPers, who will not have the fortitude to reject all of the inappropriate nominees (and may not have the fortitude to reject any).
malaise
(280,895 posts)themselves
RockRaven
(16,859 posts)already shouted "I'm a worm! I'm a worm!" to the heavens. Something about the public display of dominance/abjection.
JI7
(91,335 posts)mr715
(1,359 posts)Read Gaetz is a walking Axe can.
An adult using axe!
Trexmaster
(29 posts)There's a thought process thrown around that he's nominating all the bad apples just so they'll be intentionally shot down in order to nominate oranges.
surfered
(4,990 posts)Creep!
allegorical oracle
(4,055 posts)Senate -- THIS sitting Senate that holds a majority -- must insist that background checks be made. I'm going to phone mine tomorrow.
soldierant
(8,181 posts)This is according to Crooks and Liars. He specifically named Gates and Gabbard.
Never, ever expected to agree with John Bolton on anything,
stillcool
(33,169 posts)mind-fucking. Can't imagine doing a better job of messing with the minds of hundreds of millions of people in one fell swoop.
tclambert
(11,153 posts)and a few key words didn't come through. So blame the whole election on some bad microphones. Yeah, that must be the explanation.
NNadir
(35,139 posts)Yavin4
(36,936 posts)It's only sexual assault if it's a man assaulting a woman married to someone else.
NNadir
(35,139 posts)Yavin4
(36,936 posts)Diraven
(1,242 posts)Conservatives probably want to roll that back though.
yardwork
(65,470 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,840 posts)It is very much possible for a man to sexually assault his wife
GoCubsGo
(33,454 posts)As long as you're a woman, you're fair game to these motherfuckers.
Yavin4
(36,936 posts)Bc to them, that's a property crime.
GoCubsGo
(33,454 posts)Or, the wife of any man in a group they don't like? I have news for you...
VMA131Marine
(4,840 posts)So they better not try that in states run by Democrats
doc03
(37,432 posts)What a HIDEOUS 4 years stretch out before us.
magicarpet
(17,613 posts).... he was the protector of women,... weather they fucking like it or not.
Do not contradict djt.
Johonny
(22,763 posts)And that he is just a moron that is too stupid to vet anyone properly. He's on FOX, he likes me, he kissed my ass during the phone call. All boxes checked.
Cosmocat
(15,092 posts)You don't give him enough credit as a master manipulator.
He does these things to force his party and followers to justify them, which keeps them committed to the alternative reality he had created for them AND to stress and break the normative systems if government to continue to erode the norms, checks and balances, generally, but also toward his agenda to overstay his stay.
He doesn't do this in a deep thinking, strategic way, but he absolutely has a reptilian instinct that to do these things purposely.
Skittles
(161,857 posts)TRUMP RAPED HIS OWN WIFE.
Yavin4
(36,936 posts)They don't consider that to be rape.
Karasu
(554 posts)It really does seem like they're trying to normalize spousal rape all over again. Just like the "good ol' days" of God-fearing 'Merica.
valleyrogue
(1,667 posts)If women want to be safe, they should never date, live with, or marry a man.
The notion men "protect" women is the biggest lie patriarchy tries to sell women.
Maru Kitteh
(29,628 posts)Yavin4
(36,936 posts)Just saying that that is the message they're sending.
Cha
(307,325 posts)
magicarpet
(17,613 posts)Pedophiles,
Rapists,
Sexual assaulters,
Perverts,
And
Mysogynous toxic males.
Cha
(307,325 posts)But here We are living the NIGHTMARE 💀☠️
🕯️🕊️💙🇺🇸
ReRe
(11,208 posts)a prerequisite at this point.
yardwork
(65,470 posts)It's this:
White men are superior to all other people. White women get their status and protection from being married to white men. Everybody else is a servant. The definition of "white" is fluid and you can buy your way into it by joining our club. This is biblical. Jesus/Allah/etc taught it, so it's good.
People who fight against this natural, God-ordained order of things are "the enemy within" and must be destroyed.
The white man rules the country just like the white husband rules the family. The strength of our country depends on everybody obeying the white male ruler. Disagreement must be destroyed or else we'll all die. There is no room for weakness, like caring for the old, the disabled, or anyone who weakens our society. Children must be raised with an iron fist so that they will be strong.
The institutions that promote helping the weak must be destroyed, because they have made our nation weak. Special education; mental health care; prosecutions of sex crimes and domestic violence; laws requiring wheelchair accessibility; teaching history that undermines America's great story of how white men, sent by God, forged a nation from the wilderness; equal opportunity employment laws; government regulations of all kinds - these are all "woke" practices that weakened our country by going against the God-ordained natural order of things.
Yavin4
(36,936 posts)Which is now the core philosophy of the Republican party.
yardwork
(65,470 posts)It's an ancient way to coerce people into giving up their rights.
magicarpet
(17,613 posts)He and he alone decides God's Plan for human kind. We have no right to intercede or change that - Plan. We must play the hand God dealt us individually and not deviate from God's Devine Design.
Child birth is a perfect example,... if God's Plan Wills it to be successful that is dandy. If a failure, it must run its course absent any human interventions. Any consideration for an abortion is strictly off the table.
Again,.. God's Plan is paramount.
Our Christo-Fascist legislative bodies should decide all this in the name of God's Grand Plans for humanity.
Amen.
Ontheroad
(10 posts)He has material he can use to blackmail them if they don't push his agenda. And they likely have sex crimes info on him they can reveal, but they are less likely to if they're taking a cushy job with kickbacks from him.
bucolic_frolic
(48,673 posts)ZonkerHarris
(25,577 posts)Jk23
(455 posts)Well the justice department jobs fair... but still
Hugin
(35,570 posts)Hes usually in the first wave.
kerry-is-my-prez
(9,566 posts)Danascot
(4,960 posts)and only one criteria for nominees. They must be loyal to Trump.