Lady Justice has had enough of Don’s shit.
He’s not “protected” anymore, so she’s finally grabbing back.
We all remember hearing the audio on that infamous Access Hollywood bus.
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — 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… Grab 'em by the pussy."
The Republican nominee for President bragged about sexually assaulting women.
It was Fucking disgusting. It was revolting. It was disqualifying.
And it should have been the end of his political career. Only we all know it wasn’t. It did get the guy he said it to fired from his lucrative tv jobs and shunned from polite society however.
Billy Bush - the father of daughters who not so awkwardly laughed in response to Trump’s repugnancy suffered mightily for that audio recording. His career was, until fairly recently, over. He was cancelled.
But the actual sexual predator who said the actual words… the one who admitted to doing the sexually predatory things… well, he chalked it up to “locker room talk” (whatever the fuck that is) and (with a little help from his pal Putin) went on to beat the lifelong public servant to ascend to what is arguably the most powerful political office on the planet.
And thus began what felt like an endlessly dispiriting, relentlessly dark, hopeless and disheartening period of time where it really did feel like that immoral, unethical, unrepentant sexual abusing criminal son-of-bitch was… as had been fabled about him… Teflon.
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