In New York, there is a legal difference between rape and sexual abuse. It is my (admittedly limited) understanding that digital penetration counts as sexual abuse in New York.

So, according to the legal definition in NY and the idea that in the US people are innocent until proven guilty, maybe Trump can make the general claim "I'm not a rapist" without it counting as defamation. Maybe.

But in colloquial terms, we can absolutely consider this to be a lie. Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist; a jury determined that, a minimum of one time in his life, he physically forced sexual contact on a woman who did not consent. (And based on what we know about abusers in general and this man in particular, my money is on this not being the only time in his life that he sexually assaulted someone.)

Nah, it's not like saying nohomo (which totally counts). Still a rapist.

he was de-honorized

Holy fuck it’s real.

imagine a world where john hinckley jr didn't fuck up

| don’t want to deal with the consequences

Americans will happily allow armed, masked men to violently kidnap people off the street in broad daylight and haven't fired a single shot. I wouldn't expect many of us to make the needed sacrifice.

You're probably right, but it feels close some days.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think the bad aiming was an inside job. No way somebody can get so close to kill a President with modern day security.

I'm British, but yeah. I could probably manage an attempt if I didn't care about my kid. I guess that's the nice thing about being from earlier generations, they mostly didn't.

Shit questions are still shit when they're ours. Don't poke The Idiot for correctly recognizing he was accused, nail him to the wall with the proof those accusations are correct! What's the fucking point of having all evidence on our side if we act just like lying fascists doing bully tactics over nothing?

I don't want a blue-team equivalent of whats-his-face jeering at Jack Smith with a hand full of nothing. I don't want progressive podcasts patting anyone's back over that kind of empty showmanship. I am not interested in making conservatives grumble like 'oh, shucks' when we hit them with a clever zinger. I want them to recoil. I want them to hear facts which keep them up at night, questioning the politics they have mistaken for an identity.

A rose, by any other name, is still a fat fuck pedophile thief of the people.

Explain what the disabled did to you to deserve shitty conduct from you.
Same for whomever upvotes you.

If you want to be an asshole, keep in mind whom you're taking it out on, because it's definitely not your critic.
Moreover, no one is immune to disability, and you could find yourself screwed over by that arrogant inconsideration you embrace.
I'll gloat over the idiocy regardless, champ.

Anyone who purports to be leftist yet downvotes accessibility is the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
They're all talk, but when it comes to concrete action here and now, that's all they are: all talk, no action, hollow words, fake.