Yeah.
SO many generalizations.
I voted for him too. I'm happy I did. I want him to win again.
But he's a first-rate pig in his personal life, has been for many decades, and I've got no qualms saying it. I'm certainly not going to go into mental contortions about how "women in our society" are broadly willing to sidle up to any rich man with bad hair, spread their legs, grab the poor, innocent, unwitting rich man's hands, and shove them into their pants.
Just no.
Is his commentary tasteless? Sure- but it's definitely worth mentioning that it's not any different than a bunch of sexual convos that men
have in private all over this country, and it doesn't necessarily indicate predatory behavior. I think the audio snippet also lacks a lot of
context. At times during the recording you can't even hear anything. The MSM suggestion is that trump is walking down the street grabbing women that way or something, and that is likely not reality. There are tons of women that consentually thrive off that stuff, whether they will admit it in public or not is a whole other story. If you happen to have one of those women in your company that's consented to the power exchange game, yeah, "they do let you do that. " Tons of women (definitely not all!) enable and are aroused by jerk-like behavior within the context of a consentual relationship. I mean how often have we all seen the hot chicks with douchebags meme play out in real life? More than anyone could ever count.
The problem with his commentary is most of the people viewing it see and speak in vanilla when it comes to sex and relationship
dynamics. They think that "their world after consent is given" is the same as everyone else's, it definitely isn't...
I do think his response "oh its locker room talk" excuse didn't help matters. That's a poor way of explaining it away. I also think he was likely embellishing a lot of things, but the last thing people like him want to do is admit that they're blowing smoke up
peoples asses. (I mean lets face facts, he does that all the time with a lot of other things. Oh mexico will pay for the wall, etc, blah blah).
The presidents as jerks thing is almost a tradition now though. Bush Sr. and Reagan didn't have much of that going on though, but after Clinton came along it was all downhill. Obama? probably smart (and boring) enough to avoid compromising himself via idle commentary. I think the only thing that actually saved Trump is that he's always been kind of known as being a douche to some
people, so it all got written off as par for the course. I think it's also telling in respect to how bad shitlery was as a candidate, and how stupid the DNC was for propping her up.
Middle americans thought - "Wow this guy is an arrogant NYC douche.... but Hillary... that broad is pure concentrated evil, I can smell her sewage rotting from here"
ETA: On further review the whole thing reeks of him blowing smoke up Billy Bush's backside in a 110% lame attempt at trying to impress him. It almost seems fake, too. It reminds me of like, say, some a**h*** that would brag about shooting cats in his neighborhood for the hell of it, even though the reality is he'd never have the balls to actually do that, but likes to say that he does so he can seem "macho" or some bullshit like that. This is from the "trump cheats at golf" department, almost.
-Mike