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This has got to be a new low. Am I reading a new The Onion-like article? What the fuck even is going on?!
The onion wouldn't even publish this as satire because it would normally be slander.... Normally..... ....... .... Fuck this timeline
It is a mixture of two things:
Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes
Group homes for foster children are how many, if not most, children in the US end up trafficked. They are hellholes and when the older man shows up with money and a place to sleep, children take the offer.
They want children to be trafficked.
Huh... You'd think he wouldn't have to convince his base again after the Access Hollywood tape.
The thing to understand is that people are deeply and willfully ignorant. The vast majority of people today have no idea that "grab them by the pussy" was even a thing.
And you can see that in so many discussions online. How often does someone actually answer a question or explain what that something happened and get told to "touch grass"? And while that is a global phenomenon, it is also something that very much came out of right wing politics. Think about how many "kid sitcoms" basically depict the nerd or teacher as a loser because they know facts but the protagonist knows Street Smarts. And how many end up negating even that because the protagonist knows one factoid and the "smart person" breaks down because they were wrong once?
The "problem" is that "the epstein files" have been the rallying cry of the alt-right for well over a decade. So they actually WERE aware of this even if they were completely in the dark on trump's long history of being associated with epstein.
I was at the gym yesterday running on the treadmill. I usually avoid the ones that are in front of one of the TVs that have Fox News on (there's a bunch of TVs in front of the treadmills). Fox News was talking about some fight that happened in Ohio somewhere. They were talking about of for seriously 25 minutes and then they covered the nuclear submarine thing. No mention of jobs report and subsequent firing of the BLS person. The fight in Ohio was the focus because there were blacks and whites involved.