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Oct. 8th, 2016
You can't make up this stuff
Oct. 8th, 2016 12:47 pmAt least, I can't make this stuff up.
During lunch, my mother had her Fox News on, and two people were being interviewed regarding the Trump recording. One of them, a male Republican, went on and on that, while he has five daughters and a wife who had been harassed "because she was attractive" (no, she was harassed because a man harassed her, not because of what she looked like, you idiot), Trump is a much better choice because we all know if Hillary wins, we're really putting her husband in the Oval Office (no, shockingly, it is HER name on the ballot, NOT HIS). The woman who was representing the opposing perspective discussed that this was not simply locker room talk or being crude but that what he was describing doing to women was in fact sexual assault, and the fact that it was not being looked at that way was a problem. She was very emotionally upset and actually began to cry at that point. As the interview ended, just before commercials, the interviewer, who honestly did look very upset himself, told the woman, "It's going to be okay." Just before audio ended, a guffaw of laughter, definitely from a male (but not either of the other two men on screen), was heard resounding through the studio as though the woman crying about sexual assault not being taken seriously was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
Not okay. Not even the smallest, tiniest bit okay.
ETA: Oh, and a prediction. Pence is not showing up at a planned Trump event today. I have a strong feeling he's going to jump ship, rescind his acceptance of his VP nomination and attempt being a write in candidate.
During lunch, my mother had her Fox News on, and two people were being interviewed regarding the Trump recording. One of them, a male Republican, went on and on that, while he has five daughters and a wife who had been harassed "because she was attractive" (no, she was harassed because a man harassed her, not because of what she looked like, you idiot), Trump is a much better choice because we all know if Hillary wins, we're really putting her husband in the Oval Office (no, shockingly, it is HER name on the ballot, NOT HIS). The woman who was representing the opposing perspective discussed that this was not simply locker room talk or being crude but that what he was describing doing to women was in fact sexual assault, and the fact that it was not being looked at that way was a problem. She was very emotionally upset and actually began to cry at that point. As the interview ended, just before commercials, the interviewer, who honestly did look very upset himself, told the woman, "It's going to be okay." Just before audio ended, a guffaw of laughter, definitely from a male (but not either of the other two men on screen), was heard resounding through the studio as though the woman crying about sexual assault not being taken seriously was the funniest thing he'd ever heard.
Not okay. Not even the smallest, tiniest bit okay.
ETA: Oh, and a prediction. Pence is not showing up at a planned Trump event today. I have a strong feeling he's going to jump ship, rescind his acceptance of his VP nomination and attempt being a write in candidate.
