I mean he defended it way back in 2015~ this is the least surprising thing he's done.

MAGA is a man’s movement. (Just going to get this out of the way, because internet: not all).

Embedded in the loyal following are the men flailing in response to women’s lib. Remember, the real, legit push for the legal and social equality of women is only 50yrs old. We’ve been beholden to men, financially or otherwise, for millennia. Consider that. Not because it’s natural, but due to male identity, and the fact that we have what they want (nurture, our bodies, and legacy), what they’d like to continue to see molded around that identity, strangulating another human beings life and future to get it.

Fathers teach sons. By words or example. When boys, teens, and then young men grow up with “back in my day women weren’t like this”, “women aren’t women any more”, “the world treats us like shit now, in favor of women”, instead of “it’s about time” or “cool”, this can stick within the building of that male identity.

And we weren’t like this back in dads or grandpas day, true, because we didn’t have choices. Couldnt get mortgages. Take out a credit card. Have a bank account our husband couldnt rob. Have medical privacy. Never mind work place problems. That crap Nancy Wheeler dealt with in ST, real.

Rape culture travels with that mess, because that old culture came with entitlement to our lives, our bodies, and the legacy our bodies can produce. And our president is a convicted rapist. Enough good ol boys within that culture, somehow, kept his sentencing delayed until the election.

Enter the manosphere, validating all of the above, while adding blame to women for not embracing the old ways prior to the beginning of women’s lib in the 1970s.

What do you expect? He's also a rapist.

We've jumped a train of sharks before and probably have a lot more to go.

It's sharks all the way down.

Remember, 10 years ago, he was on tape, bragging about sexual assault and because of who he is, he gets away with it.

And what happened? People latched onto the choice of the word pussy and made it all about that, and how it's "locker room talk", etc. Which is just red herring, of course, but it worked.

I have to believe we can still come back from this. I hope the election next month at least starts to set us on a better path

I feel like we jumped the shark with Vietnam, or Kaiser Insurance businessmen having a talk with Nixon about HMO is "good" when he was considering universal healthcare.

I mean, this isn’t a new position for him.

What? It's an adverb that's completely proper.

Fake news.

He felt people were unfair to the Klan and Nazis that showed up to Charlottesville since most of the people (on that side) were very good people.

It's cold self interest, he's cold blooded, has not empathy. His nemesis got appointed special prosecutor, that's why he's talking shit. He's the most transparent asshole in the world.

And Clarence Thomas sexually harassed Anita Hill.

An overt cesspool of evil and dishonour. They were barely hiding it before, but at least there was an attempt, however weak.

Central park five

I know you know the differences, but to spell it out it's because the Central Park 5 are innocent and also men of color.

I guess he can empathize with rapists.

In that way, he's being honest; he "feels badly," because the mechanism by which he feels feelings is fucked up, so he is bad at feeling emotions.

Blow or hand? Or do you need to be called bubba for that to happen?

People are getting uneasy about the mob justice on this case already - that would be disastrous if Trump was able to pardon these rapists.