The Donald vs Big Tech

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

with his money I doubt he ever had to rape anyone

Because you believe all women are for sale..?

You don't think it's at least conceivable that an ugly, seedy and conceited leerer like Trump could make a pass at a woman he wanted to fuck but who genuinely wasn't interested? And in that kind of situation, of not getting what he wanted, you doubt the man-baby would be capable of grabbing what he wanted anyway?

With how long it's been dragging on, I don't see any of the sexual assault avenues ever leading anywhere. Perhaps too many people who doubt rich men could ever find themselves in a situation where the urge to assault might arise. Even if they've admitted to non- or at the very least pre-consensual sexual activity.

The things you do come out with sometimes.

[Ollkiller]

That doesn't say he's convicted of rape. Fact check it yourself it's easy to type in and read.

Never said it did. He was convicted of sexual assault. Is he a rapey piece of shit. I believe he is. Do you think he's a rapey piece of shit? Or an upstanding guy?

You must be under the mistaken opinion that I actually like Donald trump or anything he represents but with his money I doubt he ever had to rape anyone. Read the judgement and see he wasn't convicted of sexual assault either. As much as many would like it to be true, it simply isn't

Buck his ex wife accused him of rape and shut up to get the divorce payment. I know you don't like trump. So why are you defending the rapey piece of shit. His view of women is abhorent to any right thinking fella.

[astfgyl]

I'm not defending him. I'm just stating it as it legally is. He hasn't been convicted of rape or sexual assault is all. It's like the fine people thing, or the cops that were killed on January 6th it just didn't happen

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

An indictment filed Wednesday alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were "often consistent" with the Kremlin's "interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition" to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.

https://apnews.com/article/russian-interference-presidential-election-influencers-trump-999435273dd39edf7468c6aa34fad5dd

They may not have known that Russia was financing this, but certainly some of the content Tim Pool, for one, was creating for money could only be perceived as benefiting Russia, stuff where he's quite literally screaming "UKRAINE IS OUR NUMBER ONE ENEMY!" I mean, Tim Pool is an actual moron, but still.

Edit: Bonus snapshot of a view perspectives on Irish issues from the same media company at the centre of the above story:
https://x.com/McNeillYeah/status/1831648084184445251

[astfgyl]

Putin says he supports Harris

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

He's saying that today alright. Was he saying it before today?

[astfgyl]

I dunno, I don't generally listen to him. Would you reckon it counts as election interference that he said that now?

[Anvil]

Putin is just playing silly buggers.  He knows whoever he says he supports will get votes for the other candidate (or that is my simplistic and uninformed take on it).

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I dunno, I don't generally listen to him. Would you reckon it counts as election interference that he said that now?

As in, do I think him trying to cover his election interference arse is itself election interference but for Harris? Seems like a needless convolution.

Russian interference isn't so much the story for me here (presumed it was going on to some extent); the class of figures caught in it is more interesting, along with the parallel discourse the same source was pushing. Much of which you would no doubt recognize.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

He's bad at the best of times, but it really does seem that as soon as he's asked a straight forward concrete question about policies that may directly benefit the average US citizen, he totally short-circuits:
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1831748114367283575

[Bürggermeister]

Something which directly benefits someone other than himself does not compute.

[Eoin McLove]

Mental. I can't wrap my head around his popularity at all.

[Ollkiller]

It's a word salad of epic proportions there. Not the first fucking clue what he's talking about. If that was Biden (when he was still running) he'd be lynched for being senile. But no one pulls Trump up on it.

[Eoin McLove]

He actually gets applauded for it. I don't know how he has duped so many people. Intelligent people at that. The fear mongering is working. America is fucked, the world is fucked, everything is fucked but I'll fix it for you, no bother. Leave it with me. Pure fucking shitehawkery.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

If that was Biden (when he was still running) he'd be lynched for being senile. But no one pulls Trump up on it.

A lot of examples going round today of the press doing what's being called "sane-washing" on speeches like this, reporting them in a way that makes it seem like he gave a somewhat cogent answer rather than commenting first and foremost that he was blathering like a madman.