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https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2025/07/hey-democrats-its-okay-to-be-outraged.htmlThe Rude Pundit
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7/22/2025
Hey, Democrats: It's Okay to Be Outraged That a Rapist Might Have Committed More Rapes
You need to start from one assertion: Donald Trump is a rapist. A jury said it was more likely than not that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, and the judge in the case made it clear that it's only a quirk in New York State law that prevented the jury from using the r-word. In the way any person would understand "rape," it was rape. And that makes Donald Trump a rapist. When you start by saying that, everything else becomes so much easier to understand.
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The fact that Democrats don't constantly highlight that Trump is a rapist is political and moral malpractice. It was barely mentioned in the 2024 election, and it should have been the beginning of any conversation about Trump. Now, Democrats should react to any interaction with Trump in the way any non-rapist would react to being in the same room with a known rapist. They should treat Republican members of Congress like you would treat someone who is covering up for a rapist. If you say that norms or traditions don't allow you to act that way, then you have no understanding that a norm only works if everyone involved is adhering to it. Otherwise, you're just a sucker. And whatever bullshit social contract made Democrats the standard bearers of eternal comity, that shit was broken when Republicans made a rapist their leader and got him elected president again.
One of the things that has bugged the hell out of me around the whole Epstein files affair/scandal/cover-up is that too few people are behaving like what's at stake here is whether or not the rapist president committed more rapes, whether he raped children, and whether he provided aid and comfort to the scuzzy fuck who procured the girls for Trump and others to rape. At the very least, it's worth knowing if Trump was aware of the awful shit that Jeffrey Epstein was doing and didn't tell anyone. Trump said that they had a falling out over some cheap property they were each trying to buy in Palm Beach, FL, in 2004 and never spoke again. We know that Epstein was being a fucking monster during the time that he and Trump were friends. We know that Epstein committed multiple rapes in his Florida mansion and that Trump knew about Epstein's fondness for women "on the younger side." But, like I said, that's a rabbit hole you can go down. I wanna talk the politics of this moment.
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In the end, like at the start, Trump is a rapist. Everything flows from there. I think that the best case scenario is that Trumps a rapist who covered up for other rapists. The worst case scenario is horrific. Democrats should be acting like it's the worst case and what they do and say should reflect the disgust and outrage they should have.

FHRRK
(1,146 posts)Until you realize that Corp media is Repub owned. So the gutless ones who don't want to take on the fight, they stay silent.
Which is why, as a 63 year old white male, who is in the comfortable stage in life and wealth I have aligned myself with the Democratic youth movement. Will some of them become sell outs, without a doubt. But damn it, some of these weak politicians need to be called out.
Probatim
(3,156 posts)I'd rather have 150 Democratic congresspeople who fight like the two Justins in Tennessee than some of the mealy-mouthed dipshits currently in office.
I'm sure we'd have to hear about how they need to wait their turn and shouldn't be making waves, but screw that notion. republicans don't have any problems running roughshod over the constitution and societal norms. Making good trouble would help put us back on track.
tirebiter
(2,632 posts)Without majoritys the charges just seem authentic.