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I’m disgusted, I’m creeped out by Trump’s hovering over Clinton like a sex stalker, threatening Clinton, lying, lying and more lying. False equivalency has shown face again. And…shocking that anyone could think Trump did a better job. As one Huff Po writer has written, “Trump is still being graded on a curve.” Of course, he’s a man, a white man.
But I just have to say that I am outraged by Kellyanne Conway and her support of this predator running for president. It’s sick that she’s taken on this role to begin with but it is even more revolting that a woman can dismiss Trump’s sexual assaults as “locker room banter?” And horrifying that there are other women who feel the same way, and support a man like Trump. Stupid, stupid women are sending such a destructive message to young women and men who are tuned in that this behavior is acceptable. Who knows how much damage this ripple effect this will have on our society. The progress women have made thus far is threatened by the dismissing of a 5 minute tape. I’m so disheartened.
I am disappointed in the media, especially Rachel Maddow whom I’ve applauded so much over the years. I feel she has gotten soft and is lacking her ballsy commentary of calling people out and exposing the underbelly like I know Rachel can. Lawrence O’Donnell and Joy Reid are the ones telling it like it is.
Anyways, I am digressing. There is so much to say about last night. I really just want to hear from all of you.
But first, here’s Olbermann’s opinion in his usual form:
Now it’s your turn. What’s your take on the debate?
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Can you believe what is happening in our politics? This has got to be the most bizarre political time in history.
The Trump video emerges. Shocking. It is one thing to say horrific things about women when the camera is running and you (the person on camera) know it. And evidently a very different thing to say horrific things and a camera is running and you (the person on camera) don’t know it.
Yes, if you know you’re on camera you might say something for shock sake or to get a reaction. And if you’re not aware of the camera then we assume you are just being your “normal” self. But when it comes to Trump, to me, it doesn’t matter – It’s absolutely sickening either way you look at it. Trump is sickening any ole way we get him. But hey, if this was the crux that finally got people to wake up, then all I can say is, “It’s about time.”
In contrary to what Trump says, the video reflects exactly who he is. But then is anyone really surprised?
The Video:
Then comes an apology from Trump, which is not at all an apology. And then at the midnight hour we get a second apology(?) using words that says he’s sorry but then telling the world that “…this is nothing more than a distraction…” (Wha’at?! Did you really just say that?), and ends with an attack on the Clintons.
Trump apologizes for his “words,” but what about his “actions?” In the video he is promoting how he engages in sexual assaults on women, and acts as if there is nothing wrong with it. Does he apologize for that? Absolutely not. Because he doesn’t think there is anything wrong with his actions. Sickening.
In Trump’s world, women are objects ― objects that only hold a value based on how physically attractive he personally finds them to be. And if women are objects, rather than whole human beings, it follows that Trump must deserve them. Women are things. And when he wants them, he wants them.
As he says to Bush: “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”
This is what rape culture looks like.
In a statement, Planned Parenthood Action Fund Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens explicitly connected Trump’s 2005 commentary to sexual violence.
“What Trump described in these tapes amounts to sexual assault,” she said. “Trump’s behavior is disgusting and unacceptable in any context, and it is disqualifying for a man who is running for president of this country.”
This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course ― not even close. I apologize if anyone was offended.
But whether or not these sort of comments are the “locker room banter” Trump and his buddies engage in ― manymenseem to take issue with the idea that this is normal locker room talk ― his comments are indicative of just how little he values women’s autonomy. They also signal how little he understands women’s lived experiences.
As Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of women’s advocacy organization UltraViolet Action, said in a statement: “Comments like these … are an embodiment of a culture that normalizes sexual harassment and violence against women.”
You’d be hard-pressed to find a woman out there who hasn’t been groped against her will or propositioned in a way that felt threatening or had a man yell lewd comments at her as she walked down the street. These experiences are seared into our memories and built into our muscles. They are why we flinch when we sense someone behind us on the street at night, and why we make sure to have a friend nearby at a bar who will intervene if a stranger gets handsy.
This is rape culture, and a man who might be our next president doesn’t understand it at all.\
Rape culture is why victims of rape and sexual assault feel unsafe reporting their assaults to law enforcement.
Rape culture is why many female victims of sexual violence are still asked what they were wearing and drinking when the assaults occurred.
Rape culture is what allows famous men like Bill Cosby to remain untarnished in the public eye until more than 50 women publicly accused him of sexual assault.
Except that the public is not discussing Trump and Bush’s comments in the midst of a referendum on a famous man’s character or past. Americans are weighing whether Donald Trump is a person who should be allowed to hold the futures of more than 318 million Americans ― of whom 162 million are women ― in his hands.
In four weeks we will elect either our first woman president or a man who doesn’t understand the difference between “locker room banter” and sexual assault. The choice is ours.
Readers: The forum is open. There is certainly plenty to talk about.
Blog me.
PS: Yes, Billy Bush from the Bush family.
Happy Saturday! Can it get any crazier? Oh, yeah, the next presidential debate is on Sunday. Oh…and please let me stress, and it won’t be the last time I do this…In spite of this news, please don’t even think that this is a shoo-in for Hillary. GO VOTE. #ImWithHer
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As I mentioned it’s really challenging when it comes to choosing just one thing to report on Trump (Yes, I”m obviously talking about him again, and I don’t see myself taking too many breaks before the election ), because in just a week since the first presidential debate, so much has been exposed about him, his companies, his taxes…
But considering that I’m a girl’s girl, and my loyalty goes to the females first on this planet, my choice was easy for today.
I don’t know about you but it really riles me when people put Clinton and Trump in the same camp when it comes to the support of women or the lack thereof. On the one hand, you’ve got Trump who is clearly a misogynist, and has absolutely no problem calling women all sorts of names, objectifying them, blaming the woman when she’s a victim of sexual harassment, insulting women for breast feeding, saying women should be punished for having abortions, disparaging women’s bodies and sexual histories…etc.,etc.
And somehow Trump supporters are silent when it comes to Trump’s horrific disrespect for women, but are vitriolic towards Hillary when it comes to Hillary criticizing women tied to her husband’s sexual escapades. Even blaming Hillary for them.
But the Trump campaign wants credit for not doing it more.
Pundits, journalists, and real-time polls agree: The first presidential debate was a bad night for Republican nominee Donald Trump. In full spin mode, Trump campaign operatives are now grasping at straws — and, continuing on a common theme, they’re coming up sexist.
In a particularly egregious example, Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani said that Hillary Clinton is “too stupid to be president” because she didn’t know about her husband’s infidelity, continuing a grossly sexist line of attack the campaign has employed before.
“After being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said that Bill Clinton violated her that she was telling the truth, then you’re too stupid to be president,” he said, in a video captured by Elite Daily reporter Alexandra Svokos.
“The president of the United States, her husband, disgraced this country with what he did in the Oval Office and she didn’t just stand by him, she attacked Monica Lewinsky,” said Giuliani.
Although Giuliani claims to be horrified at Bill Clinton’s infidelity, it’s a clear case of the pot calling the kettle ‘cheater.’
While Mayor of New York, Giuliani gave a press conference to announce that he was leaving his second wife for his mistress — before telling his current wife or his children (another interesting tidbit about Giuliani’s marital history: his first wife was his second cousin). And now, Giuliani is enthusiastically stumping for Trump, who had a highly public affair with his second wife, Marla Maples, while still married to his first wife, Ivana.
If Trump’s infidelity doesn’t disqualify him from office, and Giuliani’s infidelity doesn’t disqualify him from political prominence, it’s unclear why Clinton’s husband’s infidelity should disqualify her.
Nonetheless, instead of attacking the man who was unfaithful, Giuliani is blaming Hillary Clinton for decisions that her husband made — and suggesting that she’s stupid for being transgressed against.
It isn’t the first time this smear has reared its head this campaign and, if the Trump campaign is any indication, it won’t be the last.
While flailing toward the end of the debate, Trump made strange, vague threats that seemed to suggest he was thinking about bringing up Monica Lewinsky.
TRUMP: You want to know the truth? I was going to say something…
HOLT: Please very quickly.
TRUMP: … extremely rough to Hillary, to her family, and I said to myself, “I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. It’s inappropriate. It’s not nice.”
After the debate, Trump said outright that he was “holding back” on Bill Clinton’s infidelities.
“I’m very happy that I was able to hold back on the indiscretions with respect to Bill Clinton because I have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton,” he toldCNN. “And I just didn’t want to say what I was going to say…which is I’ll tell you maybe at the next debate.”
Of course, by mentioning how proud he was of not mentioning it, Trump managed to both insert the story into the news cycle and pretend to be a good guy while doing so. On MSNBC Tuesday morning, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said that because Trump didn’t mention Bill Clinton’s infidelities, Trump displayed “great temperament and restraint.”
“I have to say, certainly as a woman, I appreciated the restraint at the end — I’m not sure I would have been able to exercise it myself — but restraint is a virtue, and it’s a presidential virtue,” Conway said. “To tell Hillary Clinton, after she accused him of being terrible with women, to tell Hillary Clinton, ‘I was prepared to go rough tonight and I’m not going to do it because your husband and your daughter are here,’ that is going to grow in importance over the next couple of days as the moment of great temperament and restraint.”
Later in the interview, she was asked specifically what Trump showed restraint on.
“I think we can all finish the sentence. People did last night. They finished the sentence. They said you know, maybe he was going to talk about Bill Clinton’s record with women,” Conway said.
When host Willie Geist pressed Conway about whether Donald Trump holds Hillary Clinton responsible for Bill Clinton’s record with women, she demurred, replying, “He didn’t say that.”
By bringing up Monica Lewinsky, however, that’s exactly what Trump and his campaign are doing: They are insinuating that Hillary Clinton is somehow at fault for her husband’s actions.
The Trump campaign isn’t new to this game. On Saturday, Trumpthreatened to invite Gennifer Flowers, a woman who had an affair with Bill Clinton in the 1970s, to the debate as his guest to sit in the front row. Separately, a “Trump Insider” released a statement to Fox News insinuating that Flowers was a “failure” of Hillary Clinton’s.
Trump also employed this line of attack against longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin when news broke of her estranged husband Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Even though Weiner is not actually affiliated with the campaign, Trump implied that Clinton has bad judgment because the husband of one of her aides made a poor choice.
It’s a simple concept, but one that bears repeating. Bill Clinton is responsible for his own infidelities, not Hillary Clinton. Weiner is responsible for his own infidelities, not Huma Abedin, and certainly not Hillary Clinton.
Suggesting that men’s actions reflect badly on women is a familiar sexist trope.
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Readers: “Great temperament and restraint.”Oh please,Conway. Alert the media! That’s one time out of hundreds that Trump sort of expressed any restraint and his temperament was far from “great.”. Conway acts as if he deserves a medal. And perhaps he does (not) - Most of the time Trump is completely himself unrestrained and uncensored. Unfortunately for Trump, that rare moment didn’t get the “importance” that she had anticipated and hoped for because it got lost in all that was revealed of Trump this past week when he showed no signs of greattemperament and restraint.
And what about Guiliani? (Ugh, he is another one that disgusts me.) Not only are people blaming the victim, in this case, Hillary Clinton, for her husband’s extramarital affairs, Giuliani is upset because Hillary attacked Monica Lewinsky.
Well, I would certainly hope that she would when she did. Hello…news flash: Lewinsky was not the victim. Lewinsky was playing around with Clinton’s husband, Bill. Hillary had every right to attack and discredit her. Lewinsky struck first. She should’ve kept her mouth shut. (pun intended.)
Lewinsky knew that Bill Clinton, the president of the United States was married, and yet she still pursued an affair. She was old enough to know better. Any woman who knowingly cheats with another woman’s man, in my opinion, is not a girl’s girl. Yes, men cheat but only because women agree to it. Lewisnky agreed to the deed knowing it was wrong. She deserved any dismissing she received from Hillary.
Yet so many people see this as Hillary not being supportive of women. There is no comparison. Hillary would never have attacked or discredited Lewinsky if she hadn’t had an affair with her husband. Period. Lewinsky received that response from Hillary strictly because of her actions. Not for any other reason and not just because she is a woman, unlike Trump who goes after women for that reason alone.
Trump’s huge dislike and disrespect for women is not in the same camp as Hillary criticizing and discrediting women who engaged in affairs with her husband. Trump is not a supporter of women. Hillary has been a strong advocate for women and their rights for decades.
There’s two things wrong going on here. 1) A double standard. If it was the other way around, we would never hear that a man was blamed for his wife’s infidelities. And…2) Once again, false equivalency is showing face by people comparing the lack of support of women from Trump, and Hillary having every right to respond the way she did to women involved in her husband’s infidelities. Many Trump supporters as well as the Trump campaign are hoping no one will be smart enough to notice the difference. Thankfully, I’m not one of them.
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Peace out.
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Raven: I liked your answer to Eric. Excellent examples. I will just add, because of course Eric and I’m sure other men will agree with him and say there is no such thing as “rape” culture,” don’t ever have to worry about walking the streets in the evening and fear getting raped. Hell, it’s not even about just the evening anymore because nowadays, rape happens in broad daylight.
Society accepts rape. We know this because the punishment for rape is not even close to what it should be for how horrific the act of rape actually is. Not only is the woman blamed (Reread Raven’s points again if you didn’t get it the first time) over and over again, many men get off easily because men don’t think rape is so bad. Remember what the father of the Stanford rapist said? - “That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life.” This is “rape culture.” And we’re living in it.
Eric, if you think a society doesn’t encourage rape think again. Men encourage men to “take it” all the time. How many stories have we read where men encourage each other to “take a piece of that meat?” How the many times it has been voiced here in the comments section. That is “rape culture” plain and simple. What part of that don’t you get, Eric?
Emilie Buchwald, author of Transforming a Rape Culture, describes that when society normalizes sexualized violence, it accepts and creates rape culture. In her book she defines rape culture as a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.
It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual touching to rape itself. A rape culture condones physical and emotional terrorism against women as the norm . . . In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable . . . However . . . much of what we accept as inevitable is in fact the expression of values and attitudes that can change.
The website Force: Upsetting the Rape Culture explains how rape culture is the images, language, laws and other everyday phenomena that we see and hear everyday that validate and perpetuate rape.
Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as “just the way things are.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “Until women’s health, and her body, including rights of her body, is respected, until rape is not considered “normal,” until the woman stops being blamed for the sick actions of men, and until the punishment for rape remains lenient, we will live in a “rape culture.”
We’re just lucky that the men in our country haven’t gone as far as other CULTures where men not only blame women for being too seductive, or too sexy, or too pretty, or too _______(You fill in the blank), they mutilate her genitals causing her to suffer incredibly, physically and emotionally, and for many the result is death. Why? Because mencan’t handle their sexual desires.
So instead of taking responsibility of their lack of control (Hey, how about putting your dick under the knife), they mutilate the women. Yeah, men can still get their thrills, but not the ladies – they have to reduce theirsexual desires because the men are “sexually weak.” Truly sick stuff.
Here’s the write from the Wash Po. It shows the reason why Islam is a dangerous cult to women. When a god is used to justify something that couldn’t be legally, or logically, or ethically.
CAIRO — It was an outrageous argument, by any measure: Women should “reduce their sexual desires” because Egyptian men are “sexually weak.”
This is what an Egyptian lawmaker, Elhamy Agina, claimed over the weekend in making an argument in favor of female genital mutilation or FGM.
“We are a population whose men suffer from sexual weakness, which is evident because Egypt is among the biggest consumers of sexual stimulants that only the weak will consume,” Agina said, according to a translation in Egyptian Streets, an English-language local news website. “If we stop FGM, we will need strong men and we don’t have men of that sort.”
So it is better for women, he continued, to undergo the brutal practice to “reduce a woman’s sexual appetite.” And by doing so, he added, women would “stand by their men” and life would proceed smoothly.
Of course, this led to a maelstrom on Twitter and other online sites.
The centuries-old practice involves the partial or full removal of the external sex organs, usually with a knife or razor blade, in a belief that doing so reduces sexual desires. The cutting can lead to urinary infections, menstrual problems, infertility and death, in addition to psychological trauma.
The practice was banned in Egypt in 2008. Since then, circumcising girls has been punishable by a prison sentence of between three months and three years as well as a hefty fine. Still, FGM remains a widespread practice here, as it is in many other African nations and parts of the Middle East.
According to the World Health Organization, Egypt has some of the highest rates of FGM, in company with Somalia, Djibouti and Sierra Leone. A UNICEF study in 2013 found that as many as 27.2 million women in Egypt have been circumcised.
The Egyptian cabinet recently approved a draft law that would impose stiffer penalties for those who force girls and women into FGM. Jail terms would range between five and seven years, and harsher sentences would be imposed if the procedure leads to death or deformity. In May, an Egyptian teenager died of complications after undergoing FGM, propelling the United Nations to urge Egypt to enact stricter punishments. The new legislation is awaiting ratification by the parliament before it can become law.
By this week, Agina was backtracking on his comments. In one local newspaper, Al Masry Al Youm, or the Egyptian Today, he clarified that his rejection of the toughening of penalties for FGM was based on how ”it is hard to apply in Egypt.”
And in a phone interview with TV host Eman Ezzuldine on Mehwar Channel that his comments were to be considered only a “jest.”
“I don’t get afraid, and I meant no offense to Egyptian men,” Agina continued. “Egyptian men are true men, and I am a true man.”
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Readers: The logic of Agina escapes me. Really there is no logic. And then after all he states, he says it was only said in “jest?” Really? Like mutilating women is a joking matter. What did I post above about “jokes?”
This too is “rape culture.”
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Good morning! How is everyone? Happy to see all of you here. 😘
Did you know that Obama’s approval rating is over 50%? As it should be because he continues to move forward and get stuff done – this is no lame duck president. If he can get this rule approved, I would love to add that feather in our beloved president Obama’s hat, thank you.
Planned Parenthood has been winning in the courts in 2016, as state after Republican-led state has tried to cripple the organization by defunding clinics. Now the Obama administration is stepping in to attempt to short-circuit those lawsuits with a proposed rule reinforcing existing law, preventing states from defunding Planned Parenthood or any other family planning provider for political reasons.
The proposed rule says that states cannot withhold Title X federal family planning funds from providers for any reason other than their “ability to deliver services to program beneficiaries in an effective manner.” This would essentially make the same laws that apply to Medicaid—states can’t pick and choose providers the federal funds go to in the absence of fraud—apply specifically to Title X funding. Bottom line: if the rule is approved, states could no longer bar Planned Parenthood funding because some of its clinics provide abortions.
“This will make a real difference in so many people’s lives,” said Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards:
“The Obama Administration is protecting access to health care for millions of people. Women in nearly half the states in this country have faced political attacks on cancer screenings, birth control, and other basic care. This rule makes it clear that politicians cannot ignore the law as they pursue their agenda to stop women from getting the care they need.
Title X is a key program in providing necessary basic preventive care as well as birth control coverage to about 4 million low-income Americans, with about one-third of those patients getting care from Planned Parenthood. It uses that Title X funding, along with the Medicaid funds it receives, to provide subsidized birth control, and screening for and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections.
Speaking of sexually transmitted diseases and Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood: Zika.
In Little Haiti, Liberty City, and a number of other neighborhoods in Miami, canvassers are now walking door to door to spread the word about the risks of Zika, one household at a time — hoping to reach 25, 000 people the next six weeks. In some neighborhoods, these workers aren’t sponsored by federal or state health agencies, but by Planned Parenthood.
Lillian Tamayo, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida, told NPR that Miami-Dade County has the state’s largest population of people without health coverage, which leaves these residents particularly vulnerable to Zika. “More than one-third of Florida does not have an OB-GYN,” she said. “It also is among the worst states in the country for women’s health and women’s well-being. And it has staggering infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases. And now we have Zika.”
The proposed rule, which will become permanent after a 30-day comment period, wouldn’t stop a terrible Republican Congress from trying to keep public health funds away from Planned Parenthood—nor would it stop horror shows like the current House Republican “investigation” that’s endangering Planned Parenthood staff and fetal tissue researchers, but it would stop governors like Florida’s Rick Scott from doing it. So we need to take care of the Republican congressional horror show.
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Readers: Thank you, president Obama for all you do for women. Women’s health has always been a priority for Obama. It’s always been a priority for Hillary too. Let’s keep the momentum going.
Speaking of health, with respect to Clinton’s bout of pneumonia, most every politician gets sick on the campaign trail. With their constant running schedules from city to city and shaking hands, kissing, and contracting who know what, it’s surprising they don’t get sick more often, not to mention dehydrated and exhausted.
The difference between Clinton and Trump is that pneumonia is a treatable sickness and will pass, unlike Trump’s sicknesses ofserial lying, misogynist comments, racist meme tweets…need I go on?…Cause I can very easily.
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