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Last updated on: October 17, 2017 at 9:58 am by Mark Shea

“Me Too” 2017-10-17T09:58:37-07:00 Mark Shea

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So a little initiative by women on Facebook took off like wildfire the other day. It simply consisted of women who have been sexually harrassed or assaulted writing “Me too” on their walls. The simple point was to try to get it through thick male skulls that This Is a Thing and not a rarity. The astonishing thing for this Thick Headed Male was just how many women answered the call. The immensity of the #metoo movement takes my breath away and breaks my heart. I just didn’t know. I’m sorry.

Relatedly, some of the Me Too women added Colorful Commentary on the difficulties of being taken seriously on this point:

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As this was all happening there was, elsewhere on Facebook, Severe Moral Dudgeon being directed at the gross and awful Harvey Weinstein. But when somebody dared to point out that the people outraged at Weinstein thought Trump was the Savior of American Christendom, they were promptly rebuked for their mean assaults on America’s Favorite Baby Christian. His confession of sexual assault was nothing of the sort, we were assured. He only said what he *could* have done, not what he did. No comparison! So mean! So uncharitable! O the humanity!

Yeah.

Trump: I did try and fuck her, she was married.”

Unknown: “That’s huge news there.”

Trump: “No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn’t get there and she was married.

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Trump: “Yeah that’s her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful… I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Bush: “Whatever you want.”

Trump: “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

“And when you’re a star they let you do it.” This is not a confession of what he could do. This is a confession of what he has done.

And lo! There are at least sixteen women who have come forward to confirm what Trump has confessed. So Trump confesses being a sex predator and sixteen of his victims confirm that he preyed on them. A real He Said/She Said situation. One of them has even subpoenaed the Trump Campaign for documents on other allegations against the Weinstein-in-Chief.

Here are the others:

Ninni Laaksonen, former Miss Finland. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt” in July 2006.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Jessica Drake. Said Trump grabbed and kissed her without consent, then offered her 10K for sex in 2006.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Karena Virginia. Says she was groped by Trump at the U.S. Open in 1998.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Cathy Heller. Says Trump grabbed her and attempted to kiss her at Mar-a-lago in 1997.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Summer Zervos. Apprentice contestant says Trump started kissing her and grabbing her breasts, began “thrusting his genitals.” 2007.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Kristin Anderson. Said Trump reached under her skirt and grabbed her vagina through her underwear in the early 1990s.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Jessica Leeds. Said Trump lifted up the armrest, grabbed her breasts and reached his hand up her skirt in the early 1980s.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Rachel Crooks. Says she was assaulted by Trump in an elevator in Trump Tower in 2005.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Natasha Stoynoff. Says Trump pushed her against a wall and jammed his tongue down her throat at Mar-a-lago in 2005.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Jennifer Murphy. Apprentice contestant says Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview in 2005.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Cassandra Searles. Says Trump grabbed her ass and invited her to his hotel room in 2013.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

Temple Taggart McDowell. Former Miss Utah says Trump kissed her directly on the lips the first time she met him in 1997.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 9, 2017

These are merely the women with the guts to come forward against the most powerful sex predator on planet Earth.

Will all the Good Conservative Christian Trump defenders who are orgasmic with joy (and filled with Grave Moral Dudgeon) about Weinstein suddenly be very upset that the Nuts and Sluts are attacking the Baby Christian President who merely engaged in Locker Room Talk a decade ago and is perfectly innocent? Or will they at long last do the right thing and face the fact that they have declared a vile sex predator as God’s Anointed, repent, and obey God in condemning this putrid sin?

Alas, I am not holding my breath. When you are a far greater Catholic than the pope, it is mighty hard to admit that you are wrong.

Meanwhile, back to the central point of the “Me too” movement: Beyond the defense of the Most Powerful Sex Predator on Earth there is the passive culture of defense of all the shockingly numerous other sexual assailants out there (shocking to me, not to women, who have had to put up with this crap). Here’s one way to start rethinking things so that, perhaps, they don’t have to put up with this crap anymore:

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It’s not much, women, but for what it’s worth: I believe you. More than that, I believe it’s up to men to stop it, not up to women to make it not happen to them.

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