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Scoundrel | 9 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ever heard of a thing called "consent"? Nothing is sexual assault if the person consents. At worst it's sexy assault.
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Poly Pagan | 9 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Trump: 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.

Interviewer: Whatever you want.

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


This is not consent. He is saying that he automatically has consent from women because he is a star. That is not how consent works.
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Scoundrel | 9 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Lol, I just watched the clip. Just before this he talks about how he made his moves on a woman in the most lewed and inappropriate way to treat a married woman: taking her furnature shopping.

He says he "moved on her like a bitch" but that he "couldn't get it." Then in the very next moment, he talks about how he can get any woman because he's a star.

In the clip says he has to take tic-tacs because he'll just start kissing women; like a magnet.

Do you notice a pattern? He talks about somerhing perfectly ordinary and mundane, like furnature shopping, getting rejected, and taking tic-tacs, but then he immediately turns around with his own, clearly out of touch interpretation of things: no wait, actually furnature shopping was "going down hard", because every playboy takes chicks furnature shopping! No wait, actually he can do anything; getting rejected was a fluke! No wait, he's not just taking tic-tacs, he's getting ready to kiss a woman at any moment, like Andrew-Fucking-Tate!

I already know that my interpretation of things is correct, which is why I am interested to hear yours. Do you agree with some people's claims that he was just joking around and playing a role? Or do you think that Donald Trump genuinely believed that he was some kind of hyperbolic Playboy despite reality proving otherwise?