Seeing the conservative reaction to this was my first realization that we were truly fucked.
I have repeated this story numerous times.
After that tape came out, a conservative woman went on The View TV show to defend Trump.
One of the panelists kept using the phrase 'pussy.'
The conservative woman asked her to please stop using that offensive term.
Shoulda called her a cunt
Initially: Thank god we can finally stop pretending Trump is a real candidate
Moments later: Oh, oh no
Ten years later: What what what oh shit oh fuck
What does even "conservative" mean for Americans? For Europeans it means you try to conserve things, or apparently being a moron.
in america, "conservatives" will tell you that they want a return to "traditional values" even though that's just barely the case in reality.
what maga really wants:
be racist/bigoted with complete impunity
mandatory jesus
own slaves again
failing that, resegregation
tradwife
i'm definitely leaving things out, but you get the idea--pretty much the fantasy is to return to the 1950s
edit: i want to add, a LOT of maga voters will say "no i don't want that i don't want that" while literally voting for and supporting and wearing t-shirts of the party that's trying to force people to deify charlie kirk, and punish anyone who doesn't. it's absolutely fucking insane, and whatever problems exist in europe, please know that here's at least one person who envies you
Honestly, this should've been the end of it. No sane country would elect someone that said this as their president
We are fundamentally broken. It doesn't matter. It's been a facade the whole time.
He is america. A racist misogynist bully.
I'm going to blame reconstruction failing. We never corrected the hypocrisy at our core and this is the result.
Who is "we"? You had some big part in this? Stop blaming yourself and please stop blaming me. There's not much need to self-identify with an oppressive system if you're not actively doing the oppressing. The nationalist "we" is garbage.
Amen. Trump is showing the world what America truly is. The rest of the world sees this. Many Americans do not.
And to throw an olive branch, many countries are a Trump away from the same realization.
As well as when he made fun of the journalist who was in a wheelchair. I remember seeing that and I thought it was completely over for him, but no.
The amount of times it should be over for him, you could fill a library
Interesting website idea.
It really should have been. The "conservatives" are not religious or conservative, they are disgusting. The "conservative" republican party is way WAY too liberal for my tastes. We should start calling republicans the "libs", because they are.
You sound like someone who still believes a party what doesn't blab about it's cruelties, wrongdoing and stupidity is a party that is innocent and good. Haha, good one. Who has been the opponent of trump the first time around in 2016, Hillary Clinton, right? Personally I always welcomed trumps presidency. Thanks to him the whole world can see what a farce our democracies are (and it's not only the MAGAs I talk about). And as Europeans it enabled us to distance ourselves more easily from the forced western dependency/decadency. I just don't know what's better: being a US colony as before or the recent stupidity, having a straight-from-BlackRock-lobbyist as a chancellor... Darn, and that's one of the reason why people become more and more aggressive while becoming decreasingly tolerant to differing world views...
A significant portion of American voters: "Heh, NICE! I wish I was famous."
The Onion, if they were writing this (instead of it being actual) would have made it better reading, less disgusting.
Trying to remember the sound of the recording because I'll never get over how "I moved on her like a bitch" does not read the way he intended
Remember when Christians called for Clinton to resign because he was unfit to be president because he got a BJ from an intern? Those same Christians voted for Trump.
Hypocrisy is dead under the republicans.
That's because they can't spell it
Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.
Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.
This isn't a Republican problem, it's a wealthy elites problem.
Drugs are bad, but let's not pretend that weed and meth are the same.
Was this an excerpt from his Nobel Peace Prize award speech?
There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.
It could be an antonym for Terrible Republicans Utilizing Monarchy Power.
Here's the original conversation if anyone is interested. Reading all the "that is just what men do" comments makes me wanna barf.
The good thing is that in hindsight we can be pretty sure that it was mostly bots. The sad part is that it worked.
Yep, we live in a rape culture. Why else would a rapist president be promoting a rapist holiday?
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5570093/columbus-day-trump-proclamation
friendly reminder that they ended Howard Dean's presidential campaign because he got a bit impassioned in one of his speeches and said "Hyah!" a bit awkwardly. that was too weird for a presidential candidate.
That image of text that breaks accessibility, searchability, & fault tolerance for no compelling reason while making the web less usable would have been far better as proper text.
ppl don't engage with text posts as much
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