Trump's latest gaffe.
I looked for a redaction somewhere. Kind of like when a fake news story gets picked up by a major network and is disseminated before fact checked.
No dice.
He said this. He 100% said this.
The saddest part? It will not faze his supporters.
Now... why is that?
Why is it that this individual... this monster... this prejudiced, hatemongering, and distasteful human being can say and do anything with an unreal level of impunity?
The answer to that is two-pronged.
1st, people who were Republicans before Trump refuse to vote against him. They have a dedication to their party that circumvents who's running under the banner of said party.
2nd, and this is the big one, they hate Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has been in the world of politics for decades. She has years of political failures and casualities connected to her.
Trump doesn't.
Hillary Clinton has messed up as Secretary domestically and overseas.
Trump hasn't.
Hillary Clinton has been the center of political intrigue, she has drawn ire due to her platform, and received criticism because of her defense of certain policies.
Trump has, so far, never done this. Not on the political stage.
Which sounds incredibly impressive.
But Trump has never, ever, been a politician. And its very easy to have zero black marks as a politician if you've never been one.
This brings me to my focal point. The heart of what I'm really trying to state here.
Please... Stop making this about Hillary.
You don't like Hillary. So you're voting Trump.
Stop making this about Hillary.
You hate Hillary to such a degree that you'll excuse every disgusting thing he says.
She's your dragon. So Trump can only be one thing...
Your knight.
That's not how this works.
You don't like Hillary? Don't vote for her. Vote 3rd party. Write Bernie's name in. Hell, write your own name in.
We need to get beyond this notion that this is about Hillary.
This is about Trump.
This is about electing a misogynistic excuse for a human being.
We should be able to say:
"Donald Trump is presidential. He has the temperament and the character of all those who took the solemn 'Oath of Office' before him. Someone who can handle the pressures of this, the most powerful of all positions, with dignity and esteem."
But we can't.
There has to come a time when we take Hillary out of the equation. Where we judge Trump based on who he is, his merits, and his flaws.
We are weeks away from possibly electing a man who calls discussing sexual assault "locker room talk."
This is a man who has shown us, time and again, how he views women and how he treats them.
This is a man that, other than biologically, shouldn't even be called a man.
The 2016 Presidential Election is not about choosing the lesser of two evils.
It's about stopping a tyrannical megalomaniac dead in his tracks and stating:
"How can Trump 'Make America Great Again' when he keeps showing us what he considers 'Greatness.?'"
In the end... One vote for Donald Trump isn't one vote against Hillary Clinton.
It's one vote for Donald Trump.
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