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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMika had to suffer through a MAJOR bout of mansplaining from Joe this morning.
She sat there listening to him saying if HE had been assaulted by trump, HE would have come forward when Megan was confronted with the "wherever" comment, rather than when he told Cooper that he had never acted on those assault terms during the second debate.
He was questioning the timing of this newest wave of stories. Obviously he doesn't get how immediate and direct that lie of "I never have" would have struck those women in the gut...
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)still auditioning for his hoped press secretary job.
sarae
(3,284 posts)How dare he criticize these women by saying what he would have done? Fuck him.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)and Mika was a page in Congress as a kid.. You KNOW she's been hit on by skeevy old pervs.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Those who get it or genuinely want to get it . . . . . .
. . . . . . and those who don't.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)middle position there..
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)would win. In addition, as nasty as that was, it was NOT something directly contrary to their own experience with him.
wishstar
(5,270 posts)Before the tape, these incidents might have been downplayed as misinterpretations of his intentions, exaggerations or attention seeking rather than serious violations.
But now these women who have nothing to gain are less afraid of retaliation since they are confirming exactly the behavior he already admitted was his modus operandi of moving in with unwanted assaults, taking advantage of his powerful status where he expected no repercussions