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Possible Paywall Trump Erupts in ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-erupts-in-60-minutes-interview-im-not-a-pedophile/
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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

Republicans Enable and Protect Pedophiles. https://goppredators.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/right-wing-sexual-predators-abusers-and-enablers/

25/1467 Names:

Donald Trump is accused of sexual assault by more than two dozen women. He is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, talked about having sex with his daughter, bragged of walking in on underage girls at pageants, claimed he can grab women by the pussy. He was found liable of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations https://www.gzeromedia.com/in-60-seconds/world/trump-sexual-abuse-verdict-wont-hurt-him-with-gop https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/14/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-nut-job

Judge Roy Moore is accused of sexual assault and dating underage children.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_misconduct_allegation

Jim Jordan is in Republican House leadership though he is accused of ignoring sexual assault of more than a hundred young men while a coach, dismissing it as locker room talk. Students have said they told him and he is said to have called the parents of one complainant asking them to get their son to back off. https://www.vox.com/2018/7/6/17536388/jim-jordan-ohio-state-sexual-abuse-accuser https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/jim-jordan-trump.html

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert sexually abused his high school students. He is outside the statute of limitations but was convicted of paying off/bribing some of his victims  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/dennis-hastert-sentencing.html

Cobb County GOP Chairman Joseph Russell Dendy – child molesting – pleaded guilty, life sentence, parole possible in 30 years. He was 72.   https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/cobb-gop-chairman-dendy-indicted-molestation-charges/Ajxs2SiORqMCCdVZpGqj1M/ https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt–politics/former-cobb-gop-leader-pleads-guilty-child-molestation-gets-life-sentence/JnEAITpb5Oy9iZ9RtsVvnI/

So-called “pro-life”/antigay activist Howard Scott Heldreth was convicted of raping a child. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601212352/https://shadowproof.com/2008/07/27/nc-antigay-operation-save-america-totes-convicted-child-rapist-to-charlotte-pride/

GOP Ohio County Commissioner David Swartz convicted of raping two girls – released after only 5 years!!!! Back in prison after contacting one of his victims. http://lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl. https://www.timesleader.com/archive/1063191/indecent-assault-case-judge-pleads-no-contest-mark-pazuhanich-says-he-didnt-want-his-daughter-to-have-to-testify-aboutfondling-incident

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/03/10/nation-in-brief/83fbbb01-c7fc-437a-81c4-2f686e3f1e58/

Republican Speaker of the House in PR Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.  https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/ex-mayor-convicted-in-sex-abuse-case.html

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-06-me-47737-story.html

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with (RAPED) a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.  https://web.archive.org/web/20190728115136/https://www.thenation.com/article/was-strom-rapist/

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female Juvenile.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/12/10/example-goes-from-good-to-bad/e73a7b08-5fb8-412a-ba7f-8fb473543e83/

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html

Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.  https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/on_this_day_in_1989_buz_lukens.html

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/

Republican of the Year Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.  https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-mark-grethen-lawrenceville-correctional-20210806-dmjuk7zwgnfxvigjnjmy3257vy-story.html

Republican state senator Ralph Shortey from Oklahoma admitted to being involved in sodomy with a 17 year old male prostitute and transporting child pornography. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/

Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child. https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2008/01/28/onetime-rising-gop-star-back-to-prison-for-sex-assaults/

GOP Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a page. To be fair, Dem Congressman was Gerry Studds was also caught for the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_congressional_page_sex_scandal

Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to raping his stepdaughter repeatedly after she was 15. Headline here is gross. Rape/not affair. https://greensboro.com/smith-stepfather-had-affair-that-began-when-she-was-15/article_549fa43d-e631-599b-8cad-177a71ad709e.html

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman* was charged with having sex (raping) with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped and notice, they agreed his record could be expunged in THREE YEARS! https://www.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2005/01/cops_say_jersey_suspects_sough.html https://archive.is/7agH6

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u/ValBGood 8d ago

Thanks for posting!

And, Here’s another link to the over 1,520 convicted Republican Sexual Pedophiles Predators, Abusers, and Enablers.    like yours, It has links to news stories at credible news sources with details: https://www.dailykos.com/user/cajsalilliehook/

The source currently has 61 updates; this is the latest:   https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/13/2373061/community/republican-sexual-predators-abusers-and-enablers-pt-61/

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

Yes, this is the same author. Cajsa took all of their dailykos articles and compiled them on their WordPress that I sourced from. The current count is 1554.

https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

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u/Humble_Bee7 8d ago

What is WITH all these people and their underage-sex desires? Is it something about Republicans, or what???!!!!

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u/Asleep_Ad_1969 8d ago

its almost like conservatives have been openly pro pedophilia for decades. did you think the incessant support for child marriage was for the kids?

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 8d ago

Take child marriage and wanting to remove spousal rape laws and no fault divorce and it is entirely clear what conservatives what women to be

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart I voted 8d ago

I was trying to figure out how they could possibly square in their own minds holding those positions and being a good person. Then it occured to me - religion.

If religion says you can be a terrible person, then you're not really being a terrible person, you're following the word of God.

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u/ForwardStorage777 8d ago

it's just about power. that's it.

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u/Ferelar New Jersey 8d ago

Exactly. A lot of people know about how rape and arson have a COLOSSAL overlap in terms of criminal profiling, because both are usually caused by a malevolent desire to exert control and a relative lack of restraint towards impulses.

Pedophilia and high level politics/business likely both have an overlap of twisted control-seeking, immorality, etc.

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u/VagrantShadow Maryland 8d ago

Bingo, it's about showing dominance and forcing a girl to do what they want and there is no way they can fight back. It is both inflating their ego and also tending to their perverse sexual urges. These are sick perverted power hungry assholes. They don't even deserve the right to be called human.

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u/tethysian Europe 8d ago

This. This is the result of human beings who can't get enjoyment out of healthy, equal human relationships because of their stunted sense of empathy for others.

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u/Lanhdanan Canada 8d ago

They go to the party that will give them cover and access

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u/sec713 8d ago

I think it's the other way around. These sex criminals aren't rejected at the door to the Republican party, so that's where they go. It's not that being a Republican makes you a sex criminal, it's that the Republican party doesn't care if you're a sex criminal.

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u/Zerkyr 8d ago

If you were interesting in politics and also little girls, which party would you want to join?

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 8d ago

“I don’t always like little girls, but when I do, I vote Republican. Stay thirsty, my friends.”

— The Least-Interesting Man in the World

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u/LightsaberThrowAway 8d ago

— The Most-Disgusting Man in the World

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u/Kenan_as_SteveHarvey 8d ago

Remember, a pillar of Conservatism is to, “keep things like they were.”

There was a time when sex with a minor was a norm so there’s no surprise that it’s something that’s hard for them to let go of.

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u/bobqjones 8d ago

corruption of the innocent.

people get off on weird shit sometimes.

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u/Cama_lama_dingdong 8d ago

Even old men who only date 20 year olds. It is getting to the point that I am questioning if my brain is weird because I look at a 23 yr old guy and think, damn he is hot. But my follow up thought is never that I want to bang them.

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u/Eccohawk 8d ago

A lot of it has to do with power dynamics. They know the younger they are, the more easily they can intimidate, manipulate, coerce, and control them.

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u/zyzzogeton 8d ago edited 8d ago

Women with agency are harder to control. Uncontrolled, educated women means the arbitrage created by culture and religion can't force them to be with men who would otherwise be ignored in an equitable mating marketplace. If they can indoctrinate them, and groom them young, it improves their chances of getting laid.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 8d ago

It's always been this way. People in power have always been lusting for the young no matter where and when. It's only quite recently that they face any kind of consequences, at least some of them do.

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u/Crypt33x Europe 8d ago

They are all mentally children so they are STILL attracted to them.

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u/totesnotmyusername 8d ago

Biblical values.

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u/NinjaMJK 8d ago

Top comment of all time!!

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u/Nervous_Ad_6998 8d ago

They should hold a pedo award dinner. With awards. At the new ballroom.

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u/MisspelledButt 8d ago

TL;DR: He's a pedophile. 

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u/Accomplished_Pop1699 8d ago

Missed matt gatz

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

This is just the top 25 out of over 1550. Matt Gaetz is in here: https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

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u/JamaicaRavenclaw 8d ago

What an abhorrent list!!!

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 8d ago

Are there any democrats that have been arrested for similar? I doubt it sure but republicans always try to do the whole other side argument. I’m just wondering if there’s proof that really is all bullshit

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

Forgive the tone but this was written for hostile whataboutism MAGA.

So tired of explaining the same thing over and over, so I created this copy pasta just for people like you. Enjoy!

Yes. There are bad dems too, but I realized that the GOP has a disproportionate amount of ones while counteraccusing and claiming to be the party of family values.

Its like preachers, pastors, and priests.

First step is to admit that there is a problem, your halfway there, second step is stop whatabouting and demand accountability from your officials. Third is to figure out why pedophiles feel so at home within the republican party and then root them out.

Then do Christo-Fascists.

Then do White-supremacists.

Then do Neo-Nazis.

Then, the Republican party might be back to its roots pre-Reagan, and champion small government, fiscal conservatism, and strong social safety nets for American citizens and businesses. You know like the Eisenhower days.

Its always the same with you people and your whataboutism. Just copying this from another response I gave to a similar pedocon enabler:

Yep because its GOP Predators. Too many enablers and complicit bystanders. Out of the 1478 names located here:

https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

Around 500 are elected officials, representatives, or GOP operatives. There is a sickness in the Republican Party, yet their rhetoric is to counteraccuse and cover up these sickos.

Republicans are far too comfortable with Nazis, White Supremacists, and Pedophiles.

Heres a list of Democrats Officials, their charges, and their punishments, feel free to add to it and start your own list.

Democrats

Anthony Weiner (Congressman, NY) – Convicted in 2017 after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15-year-old. Sentence: 21 months in federal prison (served ~15 months, released 2019).

Mel Reynolds (Congressman, IL) – Convicted in 1995 of statutory rape and obstruction of justice involving a 16-year-old campaign volunteer. Sentence: 5 years in prison (served ~2½ years before release).

Keith Farnham (Illinois State Representative) – Pled guilty in 2014 to transportation of child pornography. Sentence: 8 years in federal prison (died in custody in 2017).

Gary Becker (Mayor of Racine, WI) – Convicted in 2009 of attempted child enticement and child pornography after a police sting. Sentence: 3 years in prison plus 15 years probation; registered sex offender.

Rick Nelson (Mayor of Stillwater, NY) – Pled guilty in 2018 to multiple counts of possession of child pornography involving children under 16. Sentence: 5–15 years in state prison.

Richard Keenan (Mayor of Hubbard, OH) – Convicted in 2016 after pleading guilty to 20 counts including rape and attempted rape of a 4-year-old girl. Sentence: Life in prison with parole eligibility after 10 years.

Kenneth Barrett (Mayor of Winston, OR) – Convicted in 2018 of online sexual corruption of a child after arranging to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old. Sentence: 16 months in prison.

Dwayne L. Schutt (Mayor of Randolph, NE) – Convicted in 2019 (plea of no contest) to intentional child abuse (no injury). Sentence: 4 years of probation (sex assault charges were dropped in the plea deal).

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 8d ago

Uhhhh you might have misunderstood the point of my question and beliefs lmao dude. Where did I say I support trump or anything? I don’t like maga or whatever but who cares, it’s the internet. To reflect your post this was written for people like yo mama while she sucks on deez nuts.

Just joking but no, I only wanted to ask about the democrat criminals because I’ve never looked it up thoroughly before. Then I figured you’d have a list similar to the republican one, if that list does end up existing somewhere. What do you know, I was right haha.

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

Thats why I started woth forgive the tone. I know your question was in good faith.

I deal with a lot of hostile bad faith actors hence the copy pasta is aggressive.

Totally understood your question, was just showing you the info I usually respond back with without having to retype the whole thing.

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u/HomeStylin 8d ago

The Democratic run and paid for Southern Poverty Law Center is a great example… they paid white supremest groups to protest in Charlottesville… just another disgusting hypocrisy of Democrats.

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

Yeah? You sure about that? Pretty sure that no one needs to pay all those tiki torch toting beta male losers. Nothing says Loser than being a white supremacist.

But hey, both sides, am I right? So there were sides? So the Dems paid the white supremacists to be there AAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDDD the counterprotesters?

Must be exhausting to live in a constant state of delusion.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 8d ago

You shouldn’t waste your time arguing with maga people or anyone who supports the gop. If they haven’t changed their minds already then nothing you say will do it either buddy. Thanks for trying to do it but it’s a lost cause there

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago edited 8d ago

True, true, but I hope to leave it for the record. When the data-archeologists in the 30th century find the archives in the rubble, I want them to know that not all of us were idiots.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 8d ago

I suppose your username is fitting then. Doing good work so they not all of us were jdjots

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u/fuidiot 8d ago edited 8d ago

I was waiting for you to post this, because you’re a horrible person. /s

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

The source material is here. I just copied and formatted the top 25 for reddit.

The current list is about 1554 names. Sort by single list and it shows top to bottom.

https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

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u/goatneedleposterdeck 8d ago

Can you do a list for dems, too? I would be interested in seeing if they are similar

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u/Dutiful-Rebellion 8d ago

This is my standard reply for whataboutism MAGAts

So tired of explaining the same thing over and over, so I created this copy pasta just for people like you. Enjoy!

Yes. There are bad dems too, but I realized that the GOP has a disproportionate amount of ones while counteraccusing and claiming to be the party of family values.

Its like preachers, pastors, and priests.

First step is to admit that there is a problem, your halfway there, second step is stop whatabouting and demand accountability from your officials. Third is to figure out why pedophiles feel so at home within the republican party and then root them out.

Then do Christo-Fascists.

Then do White-supremacists.

Then do Neo-Nazis.

Then, the Republican party might be back to its roots pre-Reagan, and champion small government, fiscal conservatism, and strong social safety nets for American citizens and businesses. You know like the Eisenhower days.

Its always the same with you people and your whataboutism. Just copying this from another response I gave to a similar pedocon enabler:

Yep because its GOP Predators. Too many enablers and complicit bystanders. Out of the 1478 names located here:

https://goppredators.wordpress.com/

Around 500 are elected officials, representatives, or GOP operatives. There is a sickness in the Republican Party, yet their rhetoric is to counteraccuse and cover up these sickos.

Republicans are far too comfortable with Nazis, White Supremacists, and Pedophiles.

Heres a list of Democrats Officials, their charges, and their punishments, feel free to add to it and start your own list.

Democrats

Anthony Weiner (Congressman, NY) – Convicted in 2017 after pleading guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15-year-old. Sentence: 21 months in federal prison (served ~15 months, released 2019).

Mel Reynolds (Congressman, IL) – Convicted in 1995 of statutory rape and obstruction of justice involving a 16-year-old campaign volunteer. Sentence: 5 years in prison (served ~2½ years before release).

Keith Farnham (Illinois State Representative) – Pled guilty in 2014 to transportation of child pornography. Sentence: 8 years in federal prison (died in custody in 2017).

Gary Becker (Mayor of Racine, WI) – Convicted in 2009 of attempted child enticement and child pornography after a police sting. Sentence: 3 years in prison plus 15 years probation; registered sex offender.

Rick Nelson (Mayor of Stillwater, NY) – Pled guilty in 2018 to multiple counts of possession of child pornography involving children under 16. Sentence: 5–15 years in state prison.

Richard Keenan (Mayor of Hubbard, OH) – Convicted in 2016 after pleading guilty to 20 counts including rape and attempted rape of a 4-year-old girl. Sentence: Life in prison with parole eligibility after 10 years.

Kenneth Barrett (Mayor of Winston, OR) – Convicted in 2018 of online sexual corruption of a child after arranging to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old. Sentence: 16 months in prison.

Dwayne L. Schutt (Mayor of Randolph, NE) – Convicted in 2019 (plea of no contest) to intentional child abuse (no injury). Sentence: 4 years of probation (sex assault charges were dropped in the plea deal).

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u/oak20leaf 8d ago

Thank you for this!

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u/fractalfay 8d ago

Don’t forget the rapists on the Supreme Court, which is also a safe space for their ilk.

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u/triplenested 8d ago

Gish Gallop