• Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    Maybe if they had expelled him over the child sex trafficking thing he wouldn’t have been able to do this.

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        The trafficked child grew up to do sex work and this somehow makes the Congressman who bought her look better.

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            I don’t think having an OnlyFans site would have been as impactful as rape culture isn’t as strong now as it used to be. Millennials would be in the jury box and they by and large don’t fall for such fuckery.

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            Remember when “If it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down,” literally ended a then-winning senatorial campaign in Missouri? That was only 11yrs ago!

            For those who don’t know, that was Todd Akin ® who said that. And before he said that, he was the favorite to win against the incumbent, Senator Claire McCaskill (D), when MO was turning from purple to red. It was a landslide loss for him. Just 11 years ago, a comment like that would’ve ended a campaign and career completely.

            Nowadays, that’d barely register.

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              Oh it’d register today.

              In today’s world, that’d lead to a widely held belief among the Republican base that it was fucking true, and any disagreement with it would mean you’re a part of the vast liberal conspiracy.

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        Yes and no. There wasn’t enough to file a legal case against him, but Republicans certainly had enough via texts and Venmo to remove him from their ranks.