• Weinstein
• Diddy
• Cosby
• Dan Shneider
• Danny Masterson

All these guys got a pass for quite some time, all because they worked on having an image so pure the public would defend it for them. Trump has entire news stations doing that for him.

You think police listen to claims that people with a good public image are secretly sexual deviants? No. They don’t. Especially if they’re powerful. The person making the claim is a nobody. What are the chances they’re telling the truth? They have evidence? No they don’t, the police believe your evidence is probably fake so you can grift money.

Now imagine you hear that after you were taken advantage of, and tried to report it. And you hear it everytime you try to report it.

You want justice? First step is getting anyone to even listen when your accusations rock the boat. Doesn’t matter the boat is built of lies and bullshit, you’re still rocking it.

Everyone I listed above has dozens of allegations against them. Yet they got away with it for years. Mostly because each single voice was individually seperated and buried so they could never group together for the strength needed for actual justice.

The question you should be asking is: Why aren’t we listening to the allegations of EVERY individual when a new person comes forward?

Why is every new claim presented as something new by the media? Why are the consensus of voices saying the same thing downplayed as “dozens of others” instead of looked at with the slightest bit of credibility?

You want to listen to this new claim about Trump? Cool, let’s first hear from everyone else to see if the same things line up:

• Jill Harth, who worked with Trump in the 1990s, accused him of “attempted rape” in a 1997 complaint. She said that in 1993, Trump tried to kiss her in his daughter’s bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort, pushing her against a wall and putting his hand up her dress.

• Jessica Leeds told The New York Times in 2016 that, in the late 1970s, Trump, who was a stranger to her, reached his hand up her skirt and grabbed her breasts on a flight to New York. She said he “was like an octopus” and his “hands were everywhere” before she fled to the back of the plane.

• Kristin Anderson, a photographer and former model, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump sat next to her at a nightclub in the early 1990s and reached under her skirt. Anderson said the incident lasted about 30 seconds, but she and her friends were “very grossed out and weirded out.”

• Ivana Trump, Trump’s first wife, accused him in a divorce deposition of raping her in a fit of rage in 1989, when they were married.

• Five former Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that in 1997, Trump, the owner of the pageant at the time, unexpectedly walked into the contestants’ dressing room while they were changing, Victoria Hughes said that it was “the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time. The youngest girl was 15, and I was the eldest at 19.” The other three women described a similar situation to BuzzFeed anonymously.

• E. Jean Carroll, a writer, said Trump raped her in 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Carroll wrote about the incident in her 2019 memoir called “What Do We Need Men For?” In May 2023, Carroll was awarded $5 million after a jury held Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

• Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump “kissed me directly on the lips” when he met her at the 1997 Miss USA pageant and again when she met with him in Manhattan after he offered to help with her modeling career. Taggart described the incident as “inappropriate” and said her first thought after he kissed her was, “Oh my God, gross.”

• Cathy Heller told The Guardian in 2016 that Trump forcibly kissed her when she attended a Mother’s Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago in the 1990s. Heller said she was “angry and shaken” after the former president ignored her handshake, grabbed her and went for the lips and became angry when she tried to turn her head away.

• Amy Dorris, a former model, said Trump forcibly kissed and groped her in his private box at the U.S. Open tennis championship in 1997. Dorris told The Guardian in 2020 that Trump “shoved his tongue down my throat” and “his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything.”

• Karena Virginia, a yoga instructor and life coach, told The Washington Post in 2016 that Trump groped her, unexpectedly wrapping his arm around her and touching her breast, in 1998 while she waited for a car outside the U.S. Open.

• Karen Johnson, who was a regular at Mar-a-Lago, said Trump pulled her behind a tapestry to kiss and grope her during a New Year’s Eve party in the early 2000s. Johnson detailed the incident to journalists Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, who published it in their 2019 book, “All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator,” aalong with 42 other allegations of sexual misconduct.

• Bridget Sullivan, another former Miss USA contestant, told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that she met Trump at a party promoting the competition, and he hugged her “a little low on your back” and gave “a squeeze that your creepy uncle would.” In a separate instance in 2000, Sullivan said, Trump walked backstage while many of the contestants were naked or getting dressed.

• Tasha Dixon, a former Miss USA contestant, told CBS in 2016 that, in 2001, Trump walked into where she and other contestants were changing. Dixon said she thought Trump “owned the pageant for the reasons to utilize his power to get around beautiful women."

• Natasha Stoynoff, a former reporter for People magazine, wrote in 2016 that Trump sexually assaulted her in 2005 while she was visiting Mar-a-Lago to work on a story about his first year of marriage with Melania. When they were alone, Stoynoff said, Trump closed the door and pushed her against the wall before “forcing his tongue down my throat.”

• Juliet Huddy, a former Fox News anchor, said on the “Mornin!!! With Bill Schulz” podcast in 2017 that Trump kissed her unexpectedly and without her consent in Trump Tower in the mid-2000s. Huddy said she “didn’t feel threatened” at the time but later realized she would’ve said no more clearly.

• Rachel Crooks, a former receptionist at Trump Tower, told The New York Times in 2016 that Trump kissed her “directly on the mouth” without consent when she first met him in 2005.

• Samantha Holvey, a former Miss USA contestant, told CNN in 2016 that when she competed in 2006, Trump personally inspected each contestant, looking at them from head to toe like “sexual objects,” which made her feel “the dirtiest I felt in my entire life.”

• Ninni Laaksonen, a model and former Miss Finland, in 2016 told Ilta-Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, that Trump squeezed her butt in 2006 when they were backstage at the “Late Show with David Letterman.”

• Jessica Drake, an actor in adult films, accused Trump during a 2016 news conference of grabbing her, kissing her without her consent and offering her $10,000 to come to his penthouse hotel room in 2006.

• Summer Zervos, a former contestant on “The Apprentice,” told reporters at a 2016 news conference that Trump sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions in 2007. The first was when she met him and he kissed her on the lips. Later that year, Zervos said Trump grabbed her shoulder, kissed her “aggressively,” placed his hand on her breast and thrust himself on her before she was able to pull away and leave the room.

• Cassandra Searles, a former Miss USA contestant, wrote in a 2016 Facebook post that Trump “continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room” when she competed in 2013.

If you’ve read this far, hopefully the similar stories make it obvious what kind of creep Trump is around women.

He isn’t in jail, because every woman that comes forward is doubted instead of compared to all the rest that came before them.

That is why predators like him and the others I listed keep doing it: they’ve created an environment in which they can always get away with it no matter how many people come forward.

https://19thnews.org/2023/10/donald-trump-associates-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

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Im sorry you don’t encounter people with actual crypto knowledge enough to know what that looks like when they talk to you.

Your whole argument is based on a false premise, the state has the monopoly of violence, it enforces the law that gives the right to own the means of production aka the source of capital…

My dude. I have already pointed out how this description isn’t the case anymore because of crypto, and that is why it can destabilize the capitalist system. I can’t make you read about Blockchain enough to understand that - that’s up to you.

The means of production as owned by the state is WORTHLESS if the state is using fiat while buyers / workers / a bigger economy is entirely crypto driven.

Crypto weakens the states hold over the means of production by devaluing it through a better technological substitute of those means.

Because the concept of a state is outdated. So is it’s centralized control of capital, currency, and all the means of production that come with it.

So if those means of production are decentralized from the state - aka block chain - then the state can literally lose the ability to enforce the laws that give them any kind of centralized authority.

In short, no cop is going to protect a capitalist holding dollars, if their paycheck and environment is in crypto. They might actually have the time to think about protecting the people who are all mining crypto, rather than a single old capitalist who is no longer paying them anything close to the same value.

Imagine a miner whose work literally generates capital they can trade. They own the means of production: mining crypto. And the results: crypto currency.

Ethereum even now has smart contracts that have absolutely authority. No state can alter them without altering the block chain itself. They self execute based on rules that cannot be manipulated or corrupted as they can be in a capitalist system.

That’s why capitalists invented centralized fiat currency: to control it, and always manipulate deals involving it to their favor.

So a Marxist data scientist invented block chain tech to literally be uncontrollable by a central authority, yet still function as a valuable currency in a digital world.

They did this by making Crypto both a currency AND commodity. So it is a new asset that is both, not one or the other. (WHITEPAPER! Seriously, you should read it if you’re a fan of Marx)

As such, holding crypto puts the power of commodities, the literal power of capital, into the hands of those manufacturing it: those with crypto wallets, or those who mine it. Literally the point of Marxism.

Crypto also no longer takes the enegery requirements you think. In 2023 Ethereum updated to a new fork that uses 99.9% less energy than it previously did. An ATM transaction now takes more energy than a crypto one.

Literally, read the white paper. The “problems” you are pointing out are already solved.

The issue is wider adoption of crypto in the face of all the MASSIVE disinformation you’ve heard about it. Almost like the same massive disinformation that capitalists put out when THEY ARE THREATENED.

Don’t tell me you’re going to believe what capitalist articles tell you about Crypto, but nothing else? There’s a reason it’s hated. And that’s because it poses an actual threat to capitalism.

People who know that sound like me.

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Capitalism cornerstone is the right to own the means of production given by the state.

Agreed. And generally speaking, that’s done through fiat currency. The machines of production? Valued in Dollars. Their property and building? Dollars.

So Dollars, and the value of capital they store, are indeed the cornerstone of Capitalism.

Cytpo is a replacement for that cornerstone. And it can very much replace capitalism with it.

I use it! But you’re ignoring material reality if you think you can convince people to use crypt as their currency out of the blue.

People already ARE using it. Millions of them. That’s why I know it works. I’m not convincing you it could work if everyone uses it. I’m saying it works right now, and the sooner more people use it, the sooner capitalism will go away.

Whatever tech you do use, it isn’t crypto, or you would know this.

If you read Marx and Lenin…

I have. So I know that “proof of work” in Cryptocurrency is Based on Marx’s Labor Theory of Value.

Namely, proof of work makes each unit of the currency arbitrarily difficult to obtain, immune to forgery, and as an ancillary benefit, resistant to censorship. Marx says the work expended to mine the coins is what gives them their value, since there is no other way to create them and it requires human effort and energy.

Almost like the original white paper for bitcoin was written by a Marxist using his theories to create a new technological replacement for currency that didn’t favor capitalists.

So maybe you should read that white paper.

The worker class needs to organize itself to be able to take control of the state.

If the worker class organized to get paid in Crypto instead of dollars, the state would lose its power within months. As people use crypto, fiat becomes useless, and the systems that are built on the corruption of that fiat lose power.

That’s why no one takes French Francs anymore. The Euro replaced it, as it had more utility. Crypto could do the same with fiat, leaving everyone with francs sad and powerless as they don’t have crypto. That would be the state, bourgeoisie, and capitalists.

Marx wants us to fight the war on capitalism on the front lines. I’m not against that. Just pointing out that the very fuel of capitalism “capital” (as valued by fiat currency) can just be replaced with crypto which will stop the capitalism engine faster than anything.

Capitalism works because capital is manipulated and controlled by capitalists through fiat currency. Without fiat, there’s no controlled capital. Without that control, there’s no capitalism.

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Why would they call for a recount?

Reason 1: Trumps 2016 election interference Reason 2: Jan 6th Reason 3 - 37: Trumps 34 felonies for election interference

There has never been better reason to call for a recount during a US election. Ever. Any thought otherwise is irrational and dangerous to our democracy.

Especially considering Reagan won 16/18 swing states at the height of his popularity. And Trump just won a statistically impossible 18/18 swing states despite Covid ravaging his voter base?

I don’t give a single personal fuck about how Kamala was polling for the election.

I do however, give a massive fuck about her spinelessly ignoring her duty to challenge the outcome of this election. Without that challenge, we now have permantaly compromised presidential elections, and every branch of the government stacked with idiot sycophants unwilling to protect democratic law over Trumpian will.

The very security and trust of our elections are now permanantly shattered because Democrats wanted to protect decorum rather than fucking Democracy.

This is hilarious. 🤣 (And I’m sorry 😭)

AI wouldn’t have fucked so many kids?

As the candidate who lost the election, she’s literally the only person who had the power to issue a recount.

She failed in that responsibility. Despite the 2016 election interference, and Jan 6th. Trump has never had a fair election, and she chose to ignore that in favor of respect?

Please. Respect is earned. Not given. Especially when the protection of our democracy comes with it.

Any reasonable, spine-having American would have challenged the results immediately rather that talk about how broken shit got because they failed in their ultimate responsibility as an American.

Oh I agree. I’m a citizen. But traveled a lot for work between 2005 - 2015. The second you experience what Healthcare is like outside the US it radicalizes you. And that’s if the thousands of other tiny and much better experiences don’t enlighten you to how backwards the US is. Tipping alone is so unnecessary.

Also, those 3 criteria are solid. Certainly my experience as well. The only difference being my personal optics. (In that I’m waiting to see what gets built on the ashes of Trump before leaving) So I guess I have molecules of hope? Eitherway, you have solid advice!

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FYI. Harder to do that now than ever. Good job getting out when you did. But it’s not like Americans have good options. Most don’t have enough to pay rent let alone emigrate.

What if the Lemons falling on us in this situation are all the billionaires doing exactly what you’re saying - but exclusively with their made up bullshit lemons? Like illegal aliens, the “radical” left, and corporate taxes.

Because I’d love to turn that into lemonade, but the market is now so saturated in their fake outrage lemon bullshit to the point we no longer even agree on what lemonade is supposed to taste like.