Republican voters don’t care about Trump’s corruption — and here’s why

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Vic

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All the 'conservative' responses in this thread are.. "it's ok.. because Democrats."

Umm.. hello?
 
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Jhhnn

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All the 'conservative' responses in this thread are.. "it's ok.. because Democrats."

Umm.. hello?

They're incapable of introspection. They believe what they believe because they believe it. Fervently, of course.
 

Paratus

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and yet today you still won't find democrats who would say that such behavior should have disqualified him

I just did.

Why don’t you hold your side to the same standards.

Because as the thread title says Republican voters don’t care about corruption.
 

Vic

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I think a more accurate description is to look in the mirror
So what? Because 2 wrongs make a right, amirite?

No seriously, you're never going to see me argue that. Wrong is wrong and the ends don't justify the means.
 

woolfe9998

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> Democratic voters are also highly partisan, but don't seem to have nearly the same tolerance for immoral behavior being conducted in their name.

selective memory at it's finest

> Barack Obama did not put an accused sexual predator on the Supreme Court after that person repeatedly lied under oath

Bill Clinton was an accused sexual predator that repeatedly lied under oath

Yes, Bill Clinton had "sexual relations" and lied about it in a deposition. The problem with conservative allegations of corruption on the part of democrats is that most of them are not real.

How many times do you think it works to keep giving the same example? You at least gave one of the few real examples, I'll give you that. But you can,'t justify the corruption of Trump, and many others in the GOP, with past misdeeds of democrats, especially when they are old and much fewer and farther between. It would be like if the democrats were the really corrupt party now, and we kept bringing up Nixon every time a conservative complained. Don't you think that would start getting old at some point? It is for us, and that was really the point of the OP's article.
 

sportage

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I always said IT"S ALL ABOUT THE Supreme Court , or control of.
Republicans HATE abortion yet.... they refuse to address or have any sympathy when that baby is raised in poverty.
Not all young teens and young adults have a mommy and daddy to run to for financial help or to provide a roof over their head and over the head of that baby which republicans insist that MUST BE BORN, NEVER ABORTED.

In iOwa, their governor (a republican, naturally) supports a bill to insist a life starts when the fetus has a heart beat.
That's all good and well, YET.....
That same governor cuts education, cuts healthcare, cuts daycare and raised the qualifying poverty level to get daycare so kids were cut off of daycare.
And these mothers had to quit their work to stay home with their kid, both in poverty.
Their love for that unborn and their distaste for that same child once out of the womb is nauseating.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
They diehard to ban abortion THEN diehard to cut the safety nets.

So.... abortion is a large part of it and that is directly connected to control of the US Supreme Court. Another part is forcing the entire LGBT community back into the closet by removing their rights.
They HATE that two men can marry, legally. That drives them absolutely CRAZY.

And the last part, these people that love Donald Trump are indeed followers in a cult.
I've said that over and over, and last week Bill Maher said it too, that Donald Trump is a cult and his followers cult members.
 

Viper1j

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> Democratic voters are also highly partisan, but don't seem to have nearly the same tolerance for immoral behavior being conducted in their name.

selective memory at it's finest

> Barack Obama did not put an accused sexual predator on the Supreme Court after that person repeatedly lied under oath

Bill Clinton was an accused sexual predator that repeatedly lied under oath

Name one Democrat, ANY Democrat, and feel free to go back as far in history as you need to, in order to find one.

Name one Democrat that has ever stated on national TV that he wanted to bang his own flesh and blood daughter.

donald-trump-ivanka-bed-kiss.jpg
 

trenchfoot

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Yeh, it's getting pretty tired watching the Repubs trying desperately to drag the Democrats down to Trump's level of corruptive, immoral, unethical and criminal behavior in order to justify their own acceptance of him but it's the only way they can, in typical two faced fashion, support a lowlife like Trump.

Trump is the only certifiable pathologically lying POTUS I've ever heard of. Over four thousand lies and counting. That in itself should be good enough to kick his ass out of office yet his supporters totally ignore what they would have crucified a Democrat POTUS over.

All that made up shit the Repubs had to fart out of their asses about Obama in order to make a monster out of him yet here we have a veritable cornucopia of factual evidence as to Trump's incompetence and unfitness for office that's accumulating every time he shoots his mouth off at the typical wrong time, wrong place and for all the wrong reasons.

Yet somehow Obama was worse? lol
 

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Name one Democrat, ANY Democrat, and feel free to go back as far in history as you need to, in order to find one.

Name one Democrat that has ever stated on national TV that he wanted to bang his own flesh and blood daughter.

donald-trump-ivanka-bed-kiss.jpg
isn't that soft child pornography?:eek:
 

Starbuck1975

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Yes, Bill Clinton had "sexual relations" and lied about it in a deposition. The problem with conservative allegations of corruption on the part of democrats is that most of them are not real.

How many times do you think it works to keep giving the same example? You at least gave one of the few real examples, I'll give you that. But you can,'t justify the corruption of Trump, and many others in the GOP, with past misdeeds of democrats, especially when they are old and much fewer and farther between. It would be like if the democrats were the really corrupt party now, and we kept bringing up Nixon every time a conservative complained. Don't you think that would start getting old at some point? It is for us, and that was really the point of the OP's article.
There is no justification for the corruption of Trump, but these pearl clutching threads are tiresome and dishonest.

If conservatives kept bringing up Clinton decades from now, I could see your point.

But Democrats, who accuse the GOP of warming up to a sexual predator, literally just nominated the wife who enabled the predatory sexual behavior of her husband, a President that living Senators today vigorously defended then, and Democrats continue to do so. The road to Trump was paved by the rationalizations supporting leaders like Bush and Clinton.

The “bothsides” argument literally falls apart the moment Democrats concede they were hypocrites to defend Clinton.

Democrats like to pretend its ancient history. Ancient history is Republicans accusing Democrats of being racists because it was the Republicans who were anti-slavery. The Clintons aren’t ancient history. They are literally about to go on a speaking tour, and I bet some of our resident waterboys have front row seats.

If you were to plot the Clintons on a scale of corruption and lies, they sit closer to Nixon, Bush, Ted Kennedy and Trump (unethical politicians) than they do Carter, Obama and Eisenhower (ethical politcians).
 
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Starbuck1975

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Name one Democrat, ANY Democrat, and feel free to go back as far in history as you need to, in order to find one.

Name one Democrat that has ever stated on national TV that he wanted to bang his own flesh and blood daughter.

donald-trump-ivanka-bed-kiss.jpg
Name one Republican President that liked to insert cigars into women old enough to be his daughter.

Name on Republican President who cheated on his wife in the Oval Office.
 

ch33zw1z

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LoL, so more attempts to excuse, after starting off with not excusing...

Have no fear. Conservatives certainly have shown theyre more than capable of electing and running a more corrupt government. I certainly won't forget this in my lifetime, but tell us again how it's the Democrats fault for Conservatives rebuttal. I'll get my popcorn, you get the pile of moral equivalency and do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do concern.
 

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Name one Republican President that liked to insert cigars into women old enough to be his daughter.

Name on Republican President who cheated on his wife in the Oval Office.
The irony is strong in this thread.

The point is that the defense of illegal activity relies on comparisons to not illegal things (a screwed up relationship with Willy and Monica), non-existant issues (Benghazi, pizza parlor, etc.) or simply feelings that Dems are evil. Those things are used to justify the real illegal activities of Trump.
 
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Viper1j

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I always said IT"S ALL ABOUT THE Supreme Court , or control of.
Republicans HATE abortion yet.... they refuse to address or have any sympathy when that baby is raised in poverty.
Not all young teens and young adults have a mommy and daddy to run to for financial help or to provide a roof over their head and over the head of that baby which republicans insist that MUST BE BORN, NEVER ABORTED.

In iOwa, their governor (a republican, naturally) supports a bill to insist a life starts when the fetus has a heart beat.
That's all good and well, YET.....
That same governor cuts education, cuts healthcare, cuts daycare and raised the qualifying poverty level to get daycare so kids were cut off of daycare.
And these mothers had to quit their work to stay home with their kid, both in poverty.
Their love for that unborn and their distaste for that same child once out of the womb is nauseating.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
They diehard to ban abortion THEN diehard to cut the safety nets.

So.... abortion is a large part of it and that is directly connected to control of the US Supreme Court. Another part is forcing the entire LGBT community back into the closet by removing their rights.
They HATE that two men can marry, legally. That drives them absolutely CRAZY.

And the last part, these people that love Donald Trump are indeed followers in a cult.
I've said that over and over, and last week Bill Maher said it too, that Donald Trump is a cult and his followers cult members.
Name one Republican President that liked to insert cigars into women old enough to be his daughter.

Name on Republican President who cheated on his wife in the Oval Office.

So you see no difference between adultery and incest?

What ever blows your skirt up.

Fortunately for society, the law does see a difference.

And to answer your question Chuckles, Republicant Presidents that have cheated in the Oval Office include, Lincoln, Chester A. Arthur (21st), Warren G. Harding(29th) and a few others.

The only one marginally deserving of a pass, would be President Arthur, since he was a widower at the time, so technically his sex in the office can't actually be counted as adultery.
 
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Viper1j

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I was just being sarcastic. What normal man wants his daughter dolled up sitting in his lap or laying on his bed like that?

The short answer is, a sick one. Donny is not even close to resembling anything remotely being normal.

I have two daughters, and while I believe they are both beautiful young women, I have never been able to see them as sexual creatures. I guess it's just a dad thing.

Every time I talk to a Trumpanzee, at least a male one, I always say, "with everything that you know about Donald Trump, would you trust him to pick up your 17-year-old daughter from cheerleading practice?" Invariably, they get pissed, and end the conversation, or they begin to see him in a new light. Because character matters.

I wouldn't let the orange bastard within 100 yards of any female in my family tree.

And if I can channel Mr. T for a moment, "I pity the fool that tries to grab one of my little girls by the pussy!"
 
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