Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation
So, the presumptive GOP nominee for President in 2024 has now been found to be a sexual abuser and defamer.
Imagine trying to portray yourself as the Party of High Morals and Christianity, and having such a person be your party's leader.
These Are the Charges Against George Santos
Posted here because the conservatives here previously decided that they support Santos and refuse to acknowledge he did anything wrong.
He had political donors donate approximately $50,000 to a fake super-PAC (RedStone Strategies), which he then transferred to himself and paid off his car and credit cards as well as purchased luxury goods and designer clothing.
He has also been scamming the State of New York out of unemployment benefits since June 2020 by hiding the fact that he was employed by a Florida-based investment firm, illegally collecting more than $25,000 in benefits.
Also, he lied to Congress on his financial disclosures by overstating his income from one business and failed to disclose the salary from the Florida-based investment firm. It also appears that his claim to have been paid $750,000 (plus $1 to $5 million in dividend payments) from Devolder Organization never happened.
He claimed to have used these payments as the source of funds for the over $700,000 personal donation to his second House campaign. So, where did the money come from, then?
Having said the above, I now cue the conservatives to run into this post and post their "But what about..." in order to ignore the crimes committed by one of the GOP's representatives.
@blablarg18 said in Gay Pride Flag & Woke-fascism:
For instance, another thread, you post a pic of EMPTY DESTROYED pregnancy and go "Ha that's a child (pregnancy) pic and conservatives so dumb for even beginning to think it's a child" in full self-contradiction mode.
What the fuck are you talking about, you moron? The photo I uploaded was a photograph of a blastocyst pulled directly from a blog entry on the University of North Carolina's fertility center's website.
Man, you got to stop lying here on this Forum. It's like you're nearly incapable of a rational, truthful conversation. Instead, you think fighting me is a continuation of a fight you were having with someone else, or maybe a fight with one of the voices in your head.
Maybe libs meme poorly to you because the libs underestimate how dumb you are.
@raphjd said in Gay Pride Flag & Woke-fascism:
Clearly, you believe what your cult tells you.
Clearly, you do as well. You have no gnosis, secret knowledge, that the rest of us do not.
@blablarg18 said in Gay Pride Flag & Woke-fascism:
Hey genius, you just admitted J6 "insurrection" was fake.
So, are you retarded or something? Did your mother drop you one-too-many times on your head?
The cartoon is mocking the GOP's beliefs about the named things, not insinuating that those things don't exist in the first place.
For example, clearly Critical Race Theory exists; it's taught in colleges across the country. But the GOP's ideas that our children in grade schools are being indoctrinated in it is the nonsense.
I don't think the cartoon has to be explained to anyone here but you. Libs aren't bad at memes; conservatives are just bad at interpreting. I guess that's why so many conservative memes just come straight out and say things; no similes or metaphors.
The problem is that dumb asses like you all keep calling the following a child:
@blablarg18 It was my understanding that only the brown stripe represents communities of color. The blue/pink stripes are the trans community and the black stripe represents our community lost to AIDS.
Imagine having to live with so much internalized homophobia.
@blablarg18 said in Detransitioner speaks:
As I've explained elsewhere, Trans so-called "science" is famously, FAMOUSLY, politicized, biased, whitewashed.
So, what I'm reading is that you reject modern statistical science, and instead think we should rely on cherry-picked anecdotal science. I see...you're a moron then? Well, that's cleared up then.
Update: So, it looks like prior to the Dominion lawsuit, FOX hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (fyi, one of the largest law firms and THE most profitable one in America) to investigate Tucker Carlson, his show, and his staff. Looks like it was WLRK's reporting that prompted Carlson's firing. So much for everyone's conspiracy theories.
The study, titled “Association Between Gender-Affirming Surgeries and Mental Health Outcomes,” compared the psychological distress, substance use, and suicide risk of 3,559 transgender people who had undergone gender-affirming surgery with those of 16,401 transgender people who desired gender-affirming surgery but had not yet undergone any. It found that transgender people who had received one or more gender-affirming surgical procedures had a 42% reduction in the odds of experiencing past-month psychological distress, a 35% reduction in the odds of past-year tobacco smoking, and a 44% reduction in the odds of past-year suicidal ideation.
@raphjd said in SPLC facing the music:
That's the same defense Facebook used to defend their "fact checkers".
It's also the same defense used by FOX News and Tucker Carlson.
@blablarg18 said in Detransitioner speaks:
In the real world: Trans suicide rates either stay equal, OR GO UP, post-surgery.
Also known as widespread & extreme regret.
Where's your statistics on that? Or do you think, just because it agrees with your philosophy, that it must be true?
@raphjd Oh, you caught me again trying to push my secret pro-rapist agenda. Clever, boy! </sarcasm>
The gist of your statements here, as well as the multitude of other posts within this Forum, is "Trans people rape and molest." That statement is as prejudiced as the statement, "Black people steal."
You're ascribing the actions of singular individuals to an entire group of people that share some common trait with the individual, with no causal argument linking that common trait with the actions of the individual. You don't even think you need a causal argument, because you're a transphobe who thinks all trans people are deviants. You think its just "common sense" or a priori true that transexualism causes rape/molestation tendencies.
You assume that causal connection and that's why we all call you and your sock puppets on here who agree with you in your little echo chamber here, transphobes.
How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?
HOW OFTEN DO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REGRET TRANSITIONING?
In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility during psychological counseling.
Dutch research from several years ago found no evidence of regret in transgender adults who had comprehensive psychological evaluations in childhood before undergoing puberty blockers and hormone treatment.
Some studies suggest that rates of regret have declined over the years as patient selection and treatment methods have improved. In a review of 27 studies involving almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgeries, mostly in Europe, the U.S and Canada, 1% on average expressed regret. For some, regret was temporary, but a small number went on to have detransitioning or reversal surgeries, the 2021 review said.
Research suggests that comprehensive psychological counseling before starting treatment, along with family support, can reduce chances for regret and detransitioning.
I see you're using the same science scientists used when they noted that Dahmer and Gacy existed and therefore, determined that all white males are serial killer cannibals. That logic holds.
For being the folks supposedly devoted to "individual responsibility," you right-wingers sure do love to group blame.
@raphjd said in Tucker Carlson is terminated from FOX News:
A couple of reports I read said that News Corps/Fox News would pay out his remaining contract; $20 mill per year remaining.
That's according to "a source inside Fox News".
That doesn't sound like he's been fired.
That's the beauty of a well-crafted employment contract. Even if you're fired, they still have to pay you until the time period terms are up.
Think of it like an apartment lease. If you move out before your lease is up, you're still obligated to pay rent even if you aren't living there anymore.
