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    As the article states, the inclusion of the nudes in the newsletter allows a very clear path for criminal charges in D.C. and Georgia under their respective revenge porn legislation. She should receive charges for both.

    In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS’ family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee.

    Congratulations to Vladimir Putin and the CCP, as your work to dismantle the U.S. through propaganda and mainstreaming batshit tinfoil-hat insanity through promoting these ridiculous, unserious elected officials like Greene, Paul, Jordan, Comer, Gaetz, Santos, et al, has been incredibly effective.

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      In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS’ family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee. of anyone.

      FTFY

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      Wouldn’t it be neat if she faced consequences for her actions, instead of the US working overtime to make sure potheads do as much time as they possibly can before they’re finally forced to admit they lied about pot

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          Having the prosecution recommend not pressing charges isn’t exactly the same thing as the crime literally not happening. That’s a bit of an assumption.

          If I can make at least 3 assumptions, based on what you’ve said here, do you think OJ was a murderer?

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          Or, alternatively, his rich and powerful father used his connections to pressure anyone who could testify to rethink the consequences of their actions. Because rape is okay if you’re rich and white.

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          Your link does not support your claim that it never happened. It does not even address the question of whether or not it happened, the quality of the evidence available, or the reasons why charges were not recommended. You are clearly reading into this article. Why? Bet you don’t even know.

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            According to the article the supposed witnesses were garbage. Even the prosecution thought their testimony wouldn’t hold up in court.

            Somehow I have to prove a negative, to prove innocence, and yet somehow the parent commenter can make unfounded accusations without proof and be considered legit, worthy of updoinks? You people are in a delusional echo chamber. What a joke of a forum this is.

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    Incredibly stupid question, but, if she was charged and convicted of this, wouldn’t she have to register as a sex offender? That would be rather amusing.

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    I think the article below it is funnier

    “Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said at the conservative Turning Point Action conference over the weekend. Except … she meant it all as an insult?

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        Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.

        “My friend,” he exclaims. “How can you read that trash! Don’t you know its all lies?”

        The other man puts down his paper and replies, “I used to read your newspaper and I’d get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!”

        Old joke

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      An Australian (I think) news network took just that clip out of context. Biden’s Twitter team reposted it with an “I approve this message.” It’s great!

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    So Republican men are obsessed with penises, and apparently Republican women are as well.

    Democrats should be turning the GOP into a laughing stock with this situation. Making some innuendo jokes about “like father like son” to imply that Joe is hung like a horse, or make some jokes implying MTG isn’t getting any at home, so she’s lusting after some Democratic sausage. Basically make it very humiliating for Republicans to continue to push this issue.

    Unfortunately, as usual, I just don’t see them doing it. There might some jokes being made online, but Democrats as a party don’t seem to really be attacking the GOP on this with dirty, underhanded attacks.

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      Effectiveness of this suggestion hinges on Rs having shame and/or decency. It’s almost prerequisite to not have such a thing to get voted in.

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        Republicans only represent 1/3 of the public. If 2/3rds of the public is laughing at them, that’s more than good enough.

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          In the early 20th century the KKK went into sharp decline due to an exposee on their initiation practices, and suddenly the (white) public found them to be a really silly group of frat boys rather than a serious organization to ever consider being recruited to

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            Turning your opponent into a joke is one of the best methods of attack, especially in cases where the threat is very serious. War propaganda the world over characterizes a nation’s enemy as some bumbling idiot. Hogan’s Heroes, the TV show, did a great job at portraying the very serious issue of Nazis and made them look like a joke. Democrats are so bad at marketing and going after their opponents though that they’ll never do anything.

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    It’s crazy to me that anyone can be ok with someone sharing nudes of someone who did not consent. They’re both adults at this point but it’s literally the president’s son, too. I’m not big on appeals to authority but maybe a modicum of respect for a politicians family insofar as not sharing naked photos of them?

    And the response so far is that she can get away with it. So it continues to be normalized.

    The people who dismiss her as “just a dumbass” - whether she’s doing this because she’s literally insane or because she’s been told to - recognize the lasting damage this type of behavior is inflicting.

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      What’s crazier is that the same people who scream “the liberals are exposing our kids to sexually explicit content” because a book has two gay characters hold hands are perfectly fine with the nude photos being sent to everyone. If a gay kiss lasting two lines is enough to cause screams of rage, why aren’t actual nude photos being emailed to everyone resulting in screams?

      Of course, the answer is that they don’t care as long as the nude photos “own the libs.” (So Hunter nudes are okay, but Ivanka nudes would be outrageous.) If showing kids an explicit video of two guys having sex would somehow “own the libs,” then the right would suddenly be all for kids seeing that sexually explicit content.

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    She’s trash, along with all other rebuplicans in congress.

    Also I wonder if Hunter Biden is regretting not encrypting his laptop hardrive and/or using veracrypt/cryptomator (assuming he now knows it’s a thing).

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      I can’t help but wonder who he was sending videos of himself smoking crack to? Why would a grown man even take a video of themself doing something illegal? I don’t care, he’s not any part of the Biden administration, its just bafflingly stupid.

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    Unfortunately if Matt Gaetz, who actually trafficked and had sex with a minor, is anything to go by, this will hardly shift the needle.

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      Yeah one of them examples where age is JUST a number and jail is JUST a place… sadly, our “leaders” don’t have to follow the same laws.

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        They don’t even have to lead in most cases.

        There’s a reason we used to tar and feather politicians. Bring it back.

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      He’s my Congressman so I’ve had my eye on this, praying for the hammer to drop.

      Here are the facts:

      They couldn’t summon up enough evidence and no one involved would testify. The girl involved now has an Only Fans page, so even if she offered, the prosecution felt that would hurt her credibility. So it’s dropped.

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        The girl involved now has an Only Fans page, so even if she offered, the prosecution felt that would hurt her credibility

        It’s so fucked up that our culture still thinks like this

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        He sure can. I’m thinking 10 million per image should put her in the poor house, then follow that email chain and charge anyone else who shared or forwarded the photos as well. Stop coddling these assholes, and start swinging the big stick.

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    She should become a sex offender for this. Any normal person would get sentenced to prison if they did this, yet somehow i don’t think she’ll get in any real trouble for this.

    What the fuck can we do about this? I’m so sick of seeing powerful people get away with all types of crimes every single day while there are regular people serving 30 year sentences for getting caught with some weed.

    We are past the point where we should be revolting. I don’t think we should resort to violence, but we should put our collective foot down.

    We have all the power. This country’s economy would grind to a screeching halt if we stopped showing up for work. We need to make some demands and stop contributing until they are met. Accountability for the powerful should be among those demands. I also say we demand the ability to pay for housing, goof, and health care by working a full time job. If we don’t have those bare minimums, then what are we even doing?

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    I have little doubt that MAGA republichudism was wholely responsible for the KKKonvoy rallies that cost the Canadian economy literally billions of dollars in a matter of days with their illegal blockades.

    I’d be remiss if I didn’t quote one of my favorite saved comments from that-content-aggregator-which-shall-not-be-named…

    Dude grow up…

    We did it with smallpox

    We did it with polio

    We did it with measles

    I’ve got an “almost” centenarian in the family. Dude grew up watching German zeppelins on the front line of invasion, his folks were both mostly bald from the Spanish flu. When he immigrated to Canada (on a boat) he had to get another round of vaccinations even though he had the full onslaught in the army while babysitting German POWs as they removed landmines from the beaches of his home country. Ask anyone 75+ how many of their childhood friends died from what are now preventable diseases.

    If you think the shit were taking now is untested, what the hell do you think they were handing out back in the 20s and 50s…

    Have you ever traveled abroad? Like not to London, or Tokyo or somewhere nice… But to somewhere shitty like Bangladesh, Nigeria, or Guinea? Do you have any idea how many people die in these countries every year from preventable diseases? You do know that even as a Canadian you legit cant board an aircraft in or out of these places without at the VERY least a yellow fever card right? Before vaccines it was pretty common for a boat to have to sit for a few weeks in quarantine at the destination before people were allowed to disembark… This is not new, this is not unique, this is not something to fuck around with.

    Sit down, shut up, and take your medicine you spoiled little shit.

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      Fun fact!

      The etymology of “quarantine” literally refers to the practice of making a ship sit at berth for 40 days before anyone could disembark. “Quarantina” means 40 days in Italian…

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      Since you brought up ship quarantine, I think we should start doing that with air travel. It’s the number one long-range transmitter of pandemics. It’s the enabler of global pandemics.

      Quarantine-free air travel should perhaps be treated as a privilege of living in a civilization with advanced medicine and monitoring, a privilege that could be revoked mid-flight for all flights in any given region, like the entirety of Europe.

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    USA have really no concept of non-sexual nudity?

    [EDIT] - seems less of nudes and more of full on pornographic pictures, my bad.

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      This would really be more like non-consensual sexual nudity… Potentially sent to minors who might unexpectedly be exposed to it (presumably) without their or their parents’ or guardians’ consent.

      Accidental or not, my understanding is that the reason she was sharing the photos to begin with was because she believed there was something “scandalous”, embarrassing, and specifically sexual going on in the photos.

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        If Hunter were a woman, and likely if Greene were a man too, I feel there would be more significant pressure on Greene to apologize.

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          I don’t think so. If Hunter was a woman he now would be shamed endlessly, the focus would be on him instead of the perpetrator and there would be several porn sites featuring his photos.

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            Well, that, too, probably. Not to mention all comments like “Why would a woman with grown and married daughter act that way?!!?!”

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      Despite your edit, from what I can tell of being born and raised in the USA, there isn’t really a concept of non-sexual nudity, outside of locker rooms/campsite bathouses, some restrooms, and of course, nudist communities/beaches.

      Even just taking a leak somewhere that is somewhat secluded if there are no restrooms can land someone a public urination and maybe an indecent exposure charge.

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        This is what comes of being largely founded by puritanical moronic zealots. Many of them were the Scientology of their age. Europe was glad to ship them over here.