“The one thing that will never work with me — if you try to pressure me, if you try to threaten me, then I shut off,” GOP Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart said.
Pro tip:maybe don’t try to ride roughshod over people whose entire ideological basis is the phrase “you can’t tell me what to do”. Do conservatives not even understand themselves anymore?
Republican politicians: “Hm… This has always worked before with the Democrats. Why isn’t this working?! 😠”
Republican politicians: “Hm… This has always worked before with the Democrats. Why isn’t this working?! 😠”
did Jim try bullying them in the locker room?
Maybe he should try calling them and crying on the phone like a bitch that covers up sex crimes.
Did he do this? Haven’t heard that one.
One of the wrestlers reported that he called him in tears begging him to lie about the sex abuse he experienced/ witnessed.
He’s a complete piece of shit and the fact that we are suggesting he be one of the people in line for the presidency is a travesty.
I’d rather see the country shut down for months than give this man one more inch of power.
Here’s what I don’t get. So this doctor raped like 100 something grown men. And they were wrestlers. Aren’t they supposed to be tough? And nobody kicked his ass? He deserved a good ass kicking, for starters.
So blaming rape victims is never a good start, but here we go.
These were very young men in high pressure enviroment. Teenagers, mostly. Maybe 18/19, but not mature adults. They had no support network, as even the coaches turned a blind eye to it as you can see with Jim jordan who they reached out to get help from. This happened basically as the Internet was first starting, in the 80s/90s, so no social media to reach out to.
The “doctor” used sport exams as cover for his sexual assaults. These young men thought it was just them not “being tough” about part of their sport. They didn’t know he did this to a hundred other men.
They probally did know, that even if they did come forward, victim blaming assholes would say it was their fault for not “kicking his ass.” That they would be shamed for being weak about not only being raped, but by not “being manly” about it.
So yeah, like most sexual assualt, the rapist targeted young, vulnerable people unsure of themselves who he knew had no support network. Then, like now, he knew people would blame them as much as possible, and people continue to help rapists by doing so.
I’m not blaming them. Nobody is at fault over what was done to them other than the person who did it and the dickhead who covered it up. I’m just surprised that he managed to do that to so many men and nobody did anything about it. And these were people who likely got scholarships for being tough. Gym Jordan wouldn’t be able to cover up a doctor with a broken jaw and gouged out eyeballs.
He threatened to expose their sexual abuse but they just laughed because Gym Jordan will never do that.
It’s the perfect culmination for a party who’s platform is to oppose laws and never compromise
I feel so very very sorry for them. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy… /s
Can you imagine trying to publicly strongarm and shame the people you call colleagues for just a little bit of power? He betrayed every relationship he had and expended all of his political capital, gaining nothing in the process.
It turns out if you build a coalition with hard-line idealogues they’re going to hard-line idealogues even when you don’t want them to be.
A glimpse of the utter disaster that would be Jordan as Speaker.
