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54. It SHOULD have been over when those rape apologist posts came up.

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 05:06 PM

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Instead, we had people on social media and elsewhere ignoring, dismissing, even defending those posts with all sorts of excuses. The fact that those posts were NOT the end of his campaign was a depressing eye-opener for many of us.

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