Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder. Richard Hall writes

Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder

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Today, however, the crowd had thinned to a handful of true believers and true characters – those who don’t leave their house without a giant flag, a bullhorn, and an offensive T-shirt they made themselves.

It’s not only that the crowds are getting smaller, it’s that they are getting significantly weirder.

Of the people willing to step up to a microphone outside the courthouse and defend Mr Trump for allegedly paying off a porn star to hide his alleged affair from prospective voters, two offered something of a wild defence: that they opposed the charges because they too had paid for sex on more than one occasion, and assumed most men had done the same.

It didn’t matter to them that Mr Trump is not being accused of paying for sex, but rather accused of having embarked on several extra-marital affairs and falsifying business records over payments made to hide those affairs from the voting public in 2016.

  • hydroptic
    131·
    8 months ago

    “Never take relationship advice from someone who refers to women as feeeeeemales” is like the internet equivalent of “never trust a person with shiny gear”

      • ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world
        91·
        8 months ago

        If you think that sex even requires buying gifts, or that buying gifts makes men more “attractive”, you’re delusional.

        • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          8 months ago

          To be fair, if you have an extremely toxic personality that no woman seeking a desirable partner would tolerate, it’s probably easier to court less serious women with gifts in a bid for transactional sex.

          As for the “females” bit, sure, women are females, but so is my dog, and she’s literally a removed (lol at my instance censoring me for saying this).

          So if you can’t muster humanizing language like “woman”, and instead cling to sterile and human-nonspecific language like “females”, you aren’t wrong, you’re just an asshole.

          But yes, this guy absolutely is delusional if he thinks this is the way of the world.

        • capem@startrek.website
          16·
          8 months ago

          It doesn’t “require” it.

          All of that is what makes men more attractive in the eyes of females.

          Brush up on your reading comprehension.