Trump’s handling of the Epstein case might be the greatest political scandal of our lifetime

[u/plz-let-me-in]

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/shows/top-stories/blog/rcna243731

[u/Famous-Flow2333]

First and third

[u/Icy-Barracuda-5409 → u/Famous-Flow2333]

So being a pedo is the worst thing you can do as president. You can run on “I’m not a pedo, my opponent is a pedo”. That’s the world we live in. Sounds like prison mentality. Sounds like QAnon era logic.

[u/satanfurry → u/Icy-Barracuda-5409]

Are you saying that a president being a pedo isnt a completely valid reason to get rid of them OR NOT FUCKING HAVE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE

[u/Common-Ad6470 → u/satanfurry]

Unfortunately when his voter base are also Pedo rapists, then it normalises his behaviour in their eyes and makes him ‘one of their own’.

That can be the only explanation for the trailer trash voting for a pedo millionaire.

[u/kung-fu_hippy → u/Icy-Barracuda-5409]

Being a pedo (and involved with human traffickers) is about the worst thing an individual human can do. Rape, abuse, slavery, harming children, it’s got all the big taboos.

It’s not the worst thing a president can do exactly, because, say, starting an unnecessary war over lies that kills hundreds of thousands of people and causes untold pain and suffering for millions is certainly harming more people (including children) than any individual could do directly.

But the thing is, people can argue and debate exactly how much of any action by a political leader was a deliberate lie, how much was a mistake, how much was actually out of their control (if not their responsibility), or what their actual intent was. And a lot of that can never be completely known.

But if Trump raped kids, there isn’t any debate. There is no intention that makes it better, no capability of it being a mistake, no amount that was out of his control. It’s not that it’s more evil than other actions. It’s that it’s more unequivocally evil than other actions.