LOL-The Federalist: "You're Not Allowed To Knock Trump For Stormy Daniels If You Watch Porn"

[kpete]

You’re Not Allowed To Knock Trump For Stormy Daniels If You Watch Porn
Our culture is so far gone that we don't consider secretly watching porn to be adulterous behavior. But even watching porn is akin to having an affair.

By John Sweeney
DECEMBER 18, 2018

Many have been quick to judge President Trump for his affair with pornography creator Stormy Daniels, and rightfully so. But Donald Trump is not the first man to cheat on his wife with an onscreen prostitute this year. Presumably, thousands of men engage in adulterous behavior with pornographers and strippers every day.

Culturally we may not believe it, but each time a married man watches pornography, he commits an act of adultery. This by no means justifies President Trump’s behavior. He slept with another woman while his wife was home caring for their son, and he deserves every second of criticism from his affair with Daniels.


To be clear, I do not intend to argue that pornography objectifies women, robs them of their dignity, treats them like commodities, and pushes them further into the bottomless pit of depravity. It most certainly does all those things and more, but that is a topic for another time. Rather, I want to focus on the fact that as an industry, pornography has created an entire generation of unwitting adulterers.

If anything can be attributed to the sexual revolution, it is the widespread popularization of pornography. It is the crowning achievement of a culture that treats sex flippantly, stripping it of its beauty and purpose, leaving only the bodily function. We have reduced sex to transactional entertainment and created a generation of pornography-addicted consumers, hiding behind the anonymity of a computer screen. But the computer screen does not confer innocence or fidelity.



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http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/18/youre-not-allowed-to-knock-trump-for-stormy-daniels-if-you-watch-porn/

[HopeAgain]

1. I don't care who Trump slept with

I care that there were campaign law violations.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Care A Little

He ran as an R who have been touting themselves as the family values crowd for 40 years or more. He was married, so yeah i do care that he was sleeping with someone other than his wife.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. Watching porn vs. paying off a porn star for political cover are very different things

end of conversation.

[irisblue]

8. Yep

[MarcA]

26. +1,000 n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

29. Raw-dogging porn stars is quite different too!

[wasupaloopa]

4. Some couples watch porn together. I guess they are cheating on each other face to face.

[Marcuse]

19. Swingers?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. You owe me a new pair of spats. NT

[irisblue]

6. 🤦 now i haveto go read an Federalist article now.

☕ ready....

[Moostache]

7. These clowns should just learn to shut up...

Every time they try to "help" by justifying some Trump character flaw they only succeed in two things:

1) making it worse by keeping a story alive for another newscycle, and
2) demonstrating their own hypocrisy and ignorance on pretty much everything.

Loathsome creatures.

[trixie2]

17. Making a note for when the View comes back

We all know that the Federalist writes Meghan McCain's blue cards.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. that's idiotic and illogical

John Sweeney seems confused. Too much porn?

[YessirAtsaFact]

10. More ridiculous false equivalency than usual

One behavior can lead to bring STDs home and 6 figure hush money payments.

The other can’t cause these kinds of problems.

BTW, it’s interesting that authoritarian states frequently obsess about the sex lives of other people. I once read that the pleasure haters tend to be Fascists.

[unblock]

11. so the federalist is now into the "society made me do it" defense?

[MyOwnPeace]

12. Some outstanding points here by posters.........

I wonder who was the editor that thought this was a reasonable article to even publish?

[unblock]

13. if donnie nukes the planet, it's your fault because you once watched dr. strangelove.

alllll-righty then.

[violetpastille]

14. I think I know where the author is trying to go with this.

But I don't care. (snoozing cat gif here)

I'll read an article defending the Trump Foundation from a Christian perspective for kicks though. I need a laugh.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

20. Haha

(snoozing cat gif here) That was funny.

[dalton99a]

15. You're Not Allowed To Knock Trump For His Tweets If You Read Twitter

[DetlefK]

16. This article is the porn-equivalent of "But Her Emails!"

[Liberty Belle]

18. Wrong. That's like saying you can't object to crime if you watch crime movies.

[Marcuse]

21. NT

[dlk]

22. A Partisan Rationalization for Illegal Activity

It's only a crime if the other guy (or someone from the other party) does it.

[lapfog_1]

23. Oh great

So now every time I download something from pornhub I have to

1) hire a sleaze bag attorney

2) create a slush fund

3) find a publisher of a tabloid who will do some illegal favors for me

4) Have the publisher pay some amount of money ($10K ought to be enough) to each of the porn actors for their "story" about how I may have downloaded a video they made 10 years ago and then kill the story

5) have my sleaze bag attorney pay the publisher out of my slush fund

6) all so that the porn actors don't run around telling everyone else that I downloaded their video because it might make evangelicals less likely to personally think "he''s a good guy" about me.

Now they tell me... crap. What a PITA.

[D_Master81]

24. So because I watched "The Italian Job"

I dont have any high ground to call out bank robbers and general theives.

[ProudLib72]

25. Back in the day, I was diagnosed with prostatitis

I'm divorced now, so I am medically obligated to...you know.

[sdfernando]

28. I was afflicted with this sometime around age 13...

Still hits me know and then.

[Firestorm49]

27. Subsequently and likewise, you're not allowed to spew bullshit if you're the President of the US

[onenote]

30. Turns out John Sweeney wasn't just a stupid member of Congress

He's a remarkably stupid human being.