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Creepy fucker was president, WTF is wrong with this country?
There are tons of creepy fuckers that love Trump because he's a creepy fucker.
They just happen to live in key electoral college states.
It's because he's their creepy fucker.
If Jesus came down from heaven and ran as a Democrat, these people would all still vote Trump.
Do not underestimate the power of tribal instincts in social primates.
This is great point. If Trump was a Democrat they'd be fuming and calling him a godless, revolting, piece of shit.
Welcome to the past decade where politics is football
They wouldn't care, because he would have been laughed out of the running if he had tried. Like Bloomberg.
Republicans.
Democrats aren't putting forth any great candidates either but at least they're not scraping the bottom of the humanity barrel for the worst piece of shits possible like republicans have been doing as of late.
I mean it’s not even in the top 100 reasons why he should not have people vote for him
Exactly. If he's kept out of the white house for a 2nd term because the biggest crime he's committed is fucking a pornstar, our justice system is a failure.
It's not a crime to fuck them or to pay them to be silent about it.
He's on trial for fraud with where he got the money from which is funny.
If the 'billionaire' paid for it out of pocket I don't think anything that happened would be illegal.
It’s basically that he lied about what the payment was for. If he had filed it as something more accurate, there’d have been no problem.
But he said it was for “retainer fees”, and that’s a misdemeanor.
It was to conceal campaign finance violations; which as it’s another crime, makes it a felony.
Who are you voting for?
If he's kept out of office for a second term, I'll consider that a win and keep on trying for the next one. Almost everything after achieving that one goal can be done after it is achieved, but if he does get a second term then virtually everything imaginable will be getting worse for the foreseeable future.
Republicans are what is wrong with this country.
Lots of very stupid people
It's specifically racist people. Yes that is a subgenre of stupid. But I think it is important to note they are both dimwitted and want to watch other people suffer.
Does anyone remember that Bill Clinton got impeached for a fucking blow job in the oval office and lying about it on national television?
Yet we elect a president with multiple scandals, including paying a porn star hush, money for an affair while he was married. The hypocrisy in this country is ridiculous.
You are able to see hypocrisy because you value truth and integrity.
A Repub values only white supremacist hierarchy, so the idea that they would condemn both or condemn neither is incomprehensible.
It's never been about morals. It's about wielding power over others at any cost.
To this day I still think that doesn't count as "sexual relations". If one of my friends told me they had sex with someone and that's all they did, I'd call them a liar.
He's the leader of a cult. Trump infected an army to do his bidding.
Infected with… brain worms?
Ha!