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Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex? (www.independent.co.uk)

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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.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 249 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, let’s legalize prostitution. Regulate it, tax it, legitimize it.

Conservatives: hell no, we can’t have that depravity and vice. We need to punish women for sex outside of marriage. Oh, yeah…and no abortions for them either. (Unless it’s my daughter or mistress)

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 67 points 7 months ago

Also conservatives: Yeah, we still pay for sex. Rules only apply to other people.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 41 points 7 months ago

They legitimately believe it should be fine to pay for sex, but should be illegal to be paid for sex.

[-] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Most sex workers are women, so it tracks

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 7 months ago

That old post that posited conservatism is "ingroups to protect, outgroups to bind" was really on the mark.

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[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 32 points 7 months ago

It makes my head hurt how ridiculous conservatives are and how they spin things. They’re only making their lives harder. Imagine the amount of tax revenue that could be collected from legalizing prostitution.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago

Let's say it together: they don't actually care about fiscal responsibility.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's obvious that they don't because they only ever work one variable (spending) of the fucking equation:

spending - income = deficit

Even if you stop all of your spending entirely, you'll remain in debt forever if you never have any income, so it's a losing way to fix the problem, but that won't stop them or their idiot voters from insisting upon it.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, and make it more difficult for those trapped in their situation to get out of it.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gotta keep women in their place and under control, even if we say it’s the wrong place. It’s all about control and restricting their autonomy.

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[-] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 132 points 7 months ago

FFS he is not in trouble for paying for sex. He is in trouble for paying hush money using campaign funds. Good lord, conservatives are so brainwashed

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I just had this argument with a friend of mine. It’s even legal to pay someone to sign an NDA. The charges are “Falsifying business records in the first degree.”

It’s not a “hush-money trial” it’s “criminal business fraud.”

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Don't forget election interference

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

That’s a separate trial in Georgia. He also has the classified documents case tried in Florida.

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[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Just like Clinton wasn't in trouble for the blowjob. He was in trouble for lying about it under oath. But everyone who talks about it now says he got impeached for a blowjob.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's exactly why Republicans cried "purgery trap" when people wanted to have Trump testify as president. They knew what they did during the Clinton investigation and just assume Democrats would somehow "force" Trump to lie about something completely unrelated...

The Clinton investigation was over real estate and somehow made it's way over to blow jobs.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago

Exactly. He got impeached for lying about questioning unrelated to the investigation on him after the actual subject of the investigation bore no fruit.

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[-] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 86 points 7 months ago

This, isn’t the onion?

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 46 points 7 months ago

Satire is dead, reality killed it.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 7 months ago

Most countries remove their moron politicians. The United States just allows them to remain president until the end of term.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

3rd world countries like the US have all sorts of backwards politics.

[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago

Ah yes - the party of the Christian church isn’t it? 😂

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[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 52 points 7 months ago

Chud Life Baby 😎

Yes, let’s legalize and give protections to all the sex workers.

Chuds: No, not like that!!

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Isn't that a crime in the US? Did these people just confess to crimes? But of course they're "conservatives" so it's OK.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

Not if you film it.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Not everywhere. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (just not within the city limits of Vegas).

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not a crime everywhere in the US, cat houses are still around in Nevada. I’m assuming the gentlemen making these statements frequented a couple cities in that state to come to this assumption.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Just like Jesus from his pedestal... Let whoever amungst us hasn't paid for sex throw the first felony.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 16 points 7 months ago

Actually Jesus said "Let whoever among us who hasn't falsified business records throw the first felony."

The paying for sex was a mistranslation.

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[-] n0m4n@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Melania pays and pays and pays...

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[-] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Sex work is work. And if it's work, there are customers.

There's probably a long list of reasons to criticize these Trump supporters, including not understanding what this case in particular is about, but being customers of sex work ain't it.

Demonizing customers of sex work maintains the taboo and hurts the movement to legitimize, legalize, regulate, and provide normal employment benefits to sex work.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Conservatives love to hate on sex workers, particularly when they are migrants or POC or (God help us all) LGBT.

Demonizing customers of sex work maintains the taboo and hurts the movemen

The prevailing view of Republicans in this moment is that Stormy Daniels is trying to extort Trump for more money and using the NY Southern District as leverage.

Far from demonizing customers, this view holds the client up as a victim and the sex worker as some kind of intrusive parasite who has failed to know her place.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

I'm not so sure that the author wasn't taken in by a Yes Men style prank. Because honestly, that sounds like satire and the satire wasn't coming from the author of the article.

[-] minorcoma@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

Reality has become indistinguishable from satire.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I agree, but I think there are hints here and there.

For example-

“What do you think I do in Thailand, just sit in a chair?” he asked, incredulously. “That’s what we do as men, you know?”

Thailand isn't really famous for it's ciswomen prostitutes...

[-] deranger@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Thailand isn't really famous for it's ciswomen prostitutes...

Uhh, what? Yes it is.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 7 months ago

🙋‍♂️

I've only been paid for sex, never paid for it myself.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

That statement alone tells you all you need to know about his people

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