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« on: January 21, 2016, 07:38:05 PM »

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained

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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2016, 07:40:49 PM »

Great throwback Thursday post. So relevant.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2016, 07:41:25 PM »

This is still a thing?
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2016, 07:44:05 PM »

If a Republican had written an essay like that in any context, the sort of people who support Sanders would be all over it. I think it's odd, but apparently it's okay for most people.
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2016, 07:46:42 PM »

Posting old news articles as if they were new is bad form.
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2016, 07:46:45 PM »

Don't worry, you'll be hearing a lot about this the day after Sanders wins the nomination.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2016, 07:51:55 PM »

Cutting edge relevancy as per usual.
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2016, 07:52:45 PM »

Don't worry, you'll be hearing a lot about this the day after Sanders wins the nomination.

Well, he'll be running against someone who may have actually raped someone so...
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2016, 07:55:06 PM »

Look, anyone who doesn't think this will be an issue in a general election is totally delusional. The GOP and the media are going to play wave after wave of this. They're going to make him totally toxic to suburban swing voters. Even conservative minority Democrats (and there are a hell of a lot of them) will think this rape-essay-writing atheist-Jew-socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and admiringly waxed poetic about Fidel Castro on TV is a radical weirdo who they don't want in the White House.
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2016, 07:56:36 PM »

Trump's twitter feed would be a bloodbath in the general.
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2016, 07:58:11 PM »

Trump's twitter feed would be a bloodbath in the general.

Except it wouldn't. Because that's who he is and why people love him.
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2016, 08:04:09 PM »

Yeah this honestly looks like nothing, but all is fair game in politics and this can be very easily spun and turned into an attack.
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2016, 08:05:22 PM »

This attack was a dud 6 months ago or whenever when it was tried against Bernie. But to be fair, it's not like you guys have anything else to attack Bernie with.

Meanwhile, no one has really attacked Hillary for her SoS / Clinton Foundation pay to play issues.
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2016, 08:06:22 PM »

This attack was a dud 6 months ago when it was tried against Bernie.

Not many people were paying close attention 6 months ago.  It would be different now.
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2016, 08:07:07 PM »

This attack was a dud 6 months ago or whenever when it was tried against Bernie. But to be fair, it's not like you guys have anything else to attack Bernie with.

Meanwhile, no one has really attacked Hillary for her SoS / Clinton Foundation pay to play issues.
 
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« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2016, 08:10:26 PM »

This attack was a dud 6 months ago or whenever when it was tried against Bernie. But to be fair, it's not like you guys have anything else to attack Bernie with.

Meanwhile, no one has really attacked Hillary for her SoS / Clinton Foundation pay to play issues.
 
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Not so much on the Clinton Foundation. I think Republicans are keeping quiet on that one until she secures the nomination.
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« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2016, 08:20:23 PM »

This attack was a dud 6 months ago or whenever when it was tried against Bernie. But to be fair, it's not like you guys have anything else to attack Bernie with.

Meanwhile, no one has really attacked Hillary for her SoS / Clinton Foundation pay to play issues.

It's actually not a dud in a general election. Even having to explain such an essay is quite awkward and distracts from the actual issues.
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« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2016, 08:21:33 PM »

LOL jfern, what percentage of people know about this story? 1%? 2%? If, god forbid, Democrats are stupid enough to nominate this guy, Republicans will make sure that number is 100% by election day. But no one has any incentive to start talking about this now.
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« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2016, 08:32:39 PM »

LOL jfern, what percentage of people know about this story? 1%? 2%? If, god forbid, Democrats are stupid enough to nominate this guy, Republicans will make sure that number is 100% by election day. But no one has any incentive to start talking about this now.

We need Obama to run for a 3rd term. I can't trust Hillary or Bernie to win it. #SMH
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« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2016, 08:52:28 PM »

Of course Bernie Sanders would write a fictional story about a straight couple. How cis-heteronormative of him! Ridiculous! No ally
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« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2016, 09:13:27 PM »

If any other candidate had written this, Republican or Democrat, the Sandernistas would be screaming bloody murder about it.

It's fine to still like Sanders anyway, since he obviously doesn't believe stuff like this anymore and hasn't in a long time, but come on guys, just admit that you're giving Sanders a free pass that you wouldn't give anyone else.
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« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2016, 09:14:46 PM »

If any other candidate had written this, Republican or Democrat, the Sandernistas would be screaming bloody murder about it.

It's fine to still like Sanders anyway, since he obviously doesn't believe stuff like this anymore and hasn't in a long time, but come on guys, just admit that you're giving Sanders a free pass that you wouldn't give anyone else.
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« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2016, 09:18:18 PM »

Remember when Hillary defended a rapist and then slandered the 12 year old victim?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/20/exclusive-hillary-clinton-took-me-through-hell-rape-victim-says.html
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« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2016, 09:20:43 PM »

Look, anyone who doesn't think this will be an issue in a general election is totally delusional. The GOP and the media are going to play wave after wave of this. They're going to make him totally toxic to suburban swing voters. Even conservative minority Democrats (and there are a hell of a lot of them) will think this rape-essay-writing atheist-Jew-socialist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and admiringly waxed poetic about Fidel Castro on TV is a radical weirdo who they don't want in the White House.

Yeah, Jesus can you imagine?

Unflattering shot of Bernie Sanders, black & white, as an ominous synth drone plays

Sounding uneasy and concerned, a woman reads from the essay.

"A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees, a woman tied up, a woman abused.

"A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by 3 men simultaneously.

"The man and woman get dressed up on Sunday — and go to Church, or maybe to their 'revolutionary' political meeting."

Full colour, upbeat music, TRUMP with his wife at Thanksgiving dinner or something, all smiling.

TRUMP: "This guy, he wants to rape women. It's disgusting and wrong. I love women. I have a beautiful wife and a beautiful daughter. I think they're terrific."

"Donald Trump. The only candidate who respects women. Make America Great Again."
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« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2016, 09:27:55 PM »


Not to mention all the "bimbo eruptions" as they called it.
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