So kcar and rgio and veev who have endorsed his stuff by adding to his comments without doing any corrections to them.
No... my comment below related solely to your defending/excusing predators who say "she looked 18", by deflecting blame to parents using the supposed word of someone who had been abused. Bad parenting doesn't excuse bad actors.
But instead of opening with the "there's nothing to see here"... you engage in defending perverts and criminals. It's a reflex... because you will grasp at anything to defend the criminal insurrectionist you want back in charge. Engaging in the "see looked 18" line of defense shows there is no line that Trump could cross that disqualifies him for you.
you don't care that Trump raped and sexually assaulted women. You said that the jury got it wrong when they sided with E. Jean Carroll's statement that Trump raped her. I believe you called it "a foul tip" instead of a full strike. Classy.
WTF are you talking about ? What does this have to do with the topic which was the SCOTUS ? I don't recall making any such statements. Show me the quotes. You're channeling someone else, maybe veev ? Sounds like something he would say.
You're fascination with rape is beyond comprehension. Rape this, rape that, here a rape there a rape, everywhere a rape, rape ... old Mac kcar had a dream e, i, e, i, oh .... . Do you fantasize about it ? Did your mommy cut you off too soon ?
You have seriously gone off the reservation. You're too far gone to talk to at all anymore.
I'm not sure what your point is. If someone did their due diligence and was shown a falsely issued passport, I wouldn't prosecute them, particularly if they responded appropriately after the fact by removing the films. That surely is a rare case. I don't see the relevance here.
"Do remember I did not start this conversation nor directed its direction. I have defending myself against the scurrilous bs put forth primarily by kcar with some help from the others below...."
Forget Taylor and Baer. Katie Johnson filed the lawsuit three times. Her first attempt was marred by legal errors. The second was withdrawn without explanation. The third was dropped because Katie Johnson said that she and her family were being threatened. That's not a gold digger at work.
And yet again you fail to respond to the phone logs between Epstein and Trump regarding Trump's massage appointments. Epstein was not managing adult women AFAICT. Those logs were unsealed recently by the courts.
You still haven't responded to my mention of Ivana Trump's statement in her memoir that Trump raped her. She had the guts to publish that. She certainly didn't need money from the book: she left $34 million (mostly to her children) when she died.
Others here seem to agree with me: you don't care that Trump raped and sexually assaulted women. You said that the jury got it wrong when they sided with E. Jean Carroll's statement that Trump raped her. I believe you called it "a foul tip" instead of a full strike. Classy.
"With the Biden's we have phone records, emails from the famous certified Russian disinformation laptop, actual bank records, itineraries and meetings documented. So there is a pretty solid case taking shape."
And yet Comer won't hold a vote for impeachment. AFAICT there's no ongoing investigation into Joe Biden. Strange isn't it? It's almost like the GOP is drawing out a BS inquiry for political gain. Yet you're stuck in your Great Pumpkin patch 'cause Trump told you stay there.
You want people to take you seriously, but you don't back up your claims, do everything possible to side with Trump and see no wrong in Trump. Hell, you parrot everything he claims.
And you're always offended. Always the victim. If you're not the world's most obnoxious chatbot, you do a great imitation of one.
Your study seems to support my point. I did read much of it. I look at faces for a living. I am dealing with real faces of actual people present, not photographs. 30 years is a long time to form solid conclusions, even for a sample size of one ...
Women are relatively slightly less clueless, but everyone overestimates nevertheless. Almost by four years on average. Women are thus not excluded. The problem of overestimation, as you demonstrated, is largest with 12-14 year old girls.
"Long ago I gave up trying to figure out how young / old they are." It shows.
That is exactly what I am going to tell you. Next month I will have been selling glasses for 30 years. An easy 75% of my customers are female. Long ago I gave up trying to figure out how young / old they are. I am constantly surprised as I see their actual DOB's as part of their medical records. I have simply given up guessing the age of women. I see 12 or 14 year old's that look 21 and 70 year old's that look 45 or 50 and everything in between. Only a woman is going to have some sort of clue as to the actual age of other women. Men as a rule, are clueless. Now go ahead and tell me how often you see a female's actual DOB in the course of your everyday life and actually find out if you guess a female's age correctly.
Using facial photos of target persons aged 12–18 years, we investigated the effects of gender, age, and ethnicity of both targets (n = 240) and observers (n = 869) on the accuracy of age estimation. We also investigated the effects of targets’ facial expressions (neutral or smiling), use of makeup, and photo quality. Participants overestimated the age of the adolescents by, on average, 3.51 years. Participants overestimated the age of young adolescent girls to a greater extent than that of younger boys. Men made larger overestimations than women. Participants also estimated smiling targets as being older than targets with neutral facial expression, and the age of girls with makeup to be older than girls without makeup. Because there was considerable variation in the accuracy of estimations, and overestimates were common, we conclude that the ability of individuals to estimate the age of adolescents is generally low. This might have important legal implications.
Your study seems to support my point. I did read much of it. I look at faces for a living. I am dealing with real faces of actual people present, not photographs. 30 years is a long time to form solid conclusions, even for a sample size of one ...
oh ffs, the whole motivation behind the Epstein thing, was that it was a safe haven to do illegal things.. that was the very frisson behind it that got all these arseholes so excited in the first place. Otherwise why go there and not just down the road?
Do remember I did not start this conversation nor directed its direction. I have defending myself against the scurrilous bs put forth primarily by kcar with some help from the others below.
Yeah. This is one gigundi rabbit hole. No to mention what Kubric's Eyes Wide Shut puts forth. This stuff is real and does exist at a level few are privy to partake in. The stories are endless and full of drama and intrigue with compromising blackmail schemes. How about the latest ? P Diddy.
The Trump / Epstein stuff that kcar has resurrected to deflect from any real discussions about Biden is ancient and fully digested having been through the news cycle many times already.
It was the end of an incredibly strange case that featured an anonymous plaintiff who had refused almost all requests for interviews, two anonymous corroborating witnesses whom no one in the press had spoken to, and a couple of seriously shady characters — with an anti-Trump agenda and a penchant for drama — who had aggressively shopped the story around to media outlets for over a year.
Those shady characters — a former reality TV producer who calls himself “Al Taylor” and a “Never Trump” conservative activist named Steve Baer — had been mostly unsuccessful in getting the media to bite. There are a few very good reasons for that, which the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim succinctly summed up: Taylor and Baer have been really sketchy about the whole thing, and since the accuser is anonymous, journalists can’t do anything to verify her claims. The only journalist who has actually interviewed Johnson, Emily Shugerman at Revelist, came away confused and even doubting whether Johnson really exists.
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This spring, a man called “Al Taylor” sent a video of a woman with a blurred face and blonde wig (allegedly Johnson) recounting the allegations against Trump to news outlets, saying he wanted $1 million for it. Taylor, the Guardian reported, was actually Norm Lubow, a former producer on the Jerry Springer show who has a history of using fake names and disguises to make juicy, false claims about celebrities. The lawsuit was promoted to the media by an anti-Trump, anti-abortion activist named Steve Baer, a conservative activist and donor with a very influential email list that he uses to relentlessly spam reporters and conservative power players. Baer, too, has a history of passing around “whoa if true” rumors: Last year, he was a key figure in spreading the notion that US Rep. Kevin McCarthy was having an extramarital affair with a woman in Congress when McCarthy was a candidate to become speaker of the House.
To hear journalists who interacted with them tell it, Baer and Taylor come off as obnoxiously persistent in pushing the story, and infuriatingly evasive when asked for interviews with Johnson. Jezebel’s Anna Merlan published a long account of their bizarre antics.
Taylor in particular comes across as volatile and a little scary; Merlan reported that Taylor told her to “suck my dick” (you just love that kinda talk, eh kcar ?) when she confronted him about his identity, and that he made harassing phone calls to other journalists. He also appears to have sent at least a few text messages and emails while posing as Katie Johnson — or at least messages that Meagher, Johnson’s attorney, denies that Johnson sent.
The Daily Beast’s Brandy Zadrozny also has a colorful story about the time Baer and Johnson had an epic public meltdown at each other — over Baer’s email list, cc’ing journalists all the way.
In short, these guys are a trainwreck. But they’ve basically been the public face of Katie Johnson for the last year.
Pretty damn sketchy to begin with. Yet here we are once again using accusations as proof of guilt and a foundation for the arguments put forth. So by that metric, we should also apply the standard of accusations against the Biden's and their grifting which has profited by selling out this country to our enemies as that they are guilty. But no that is not allowed. Instead we get deflections with stuff like this. My character gets attacked in the process as well, which is the primary goal, being as you point out, the only pro Trumper around.
With the Biden's we have phone records, emails from the famous certified Russian disinformation laptop, actual bank records, itineraries and meetings documented. So there is a pretty solid case taking shape. Recovering crackhead Hunter, also now a convicted felon and pretty soon going to be a convicted tax cheat as well is now an official senior adviser to POTUS.
If this stuff kcar brought up about Trump had any legs and another use other than to personally attack me, we would have seen it all over the news by now. And we have not, at all.
So kcar and rgio and veev who have endorsed his stuff by adding to his comments without doing any corrections to them. You can all stuff it where the sun don't shine. That goes for the pearl clutchers in the Thoughts thread.
I truly believe that you like Trump so much that you would shrug your shoulders in indifference at most if strong evidence indicating that Trump raped and/or sexually assaulted an underage woman became public.
Given recent posts⦠I believe this has been affirmatively answered.
oh ffs, the whole motivation behind the Epstein thing, was that it was a safe haven to do illegal things.. that was the very frisson behind it that got all these arseholes so excited in the first place. Otherwise why go there and not just down the road?
I just had a conversation with her earlier on this very subject. A woman, a victim of both rape and incest.
You want to know what her first response was ? Where were the parents of these 12 and 13 year old girls ? How did they let them go to these kinds of places / parties in the first place ? Who lets their little girls go out all night long in circumstances like that ? Go ahead and find fault with her reaction.
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And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are concerned.
"And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are concerned."
Your claim if uttered by the adult participants during a trial wouldn't buy them an ounce of defense. "She looked 18 and said she was 18" will get you convicted every time. That's like getting caught carrying your friend's suitcase filled with coke through airport security: "I had no idea" is not a sufficient excuse. That's why you're told that material in your possession during security checks is entirely your responsibility.
If you're f#&king someone in or near their teens, you should check their age through a reliable resource to make sure they're not a minor.
And Katie Johnson stated told Epstein how old she was. She also stated IIRC that Trump knew her real age.
Her parents failed her. That doesn't make her fair game for pedophiles like Trump and Epstein.
All this round-di-round about Katie Johnson doesn't even touch on the numerous phone call records about Trump getting massage appointments with girls working for Epstein. Those records were recently unsealed. You also seem to have nothing to say about Ivana Trump's statement that Trump raped her, an event she included in her published biography.
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"By your logic it is ok if some girl goes in to make porn and says she is 18."
I just had a conversation with her earlier on this very subject. A woman, a victim of both rape and incest.
You want to know what her first response was ? Where were the parents of these 12 and 13 year old girls ? How did they let them go to these kinds of places / parties in the first place ? Who lets their little girls go out all night long in circumstances like that ? Go ahead and find fault with her reaction.
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And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are concerned.
The fault I find with her reaction is that there are far too many parents who do a poor job of protecting their children. That's an unfortunate fact of society.
Who let's their girls go out all night long? Drug addicts, some people with mental health problems, etc. Maybe some single parent that got stuck working unpaid overtime at their service job because they can't afford to get fired or have their hours cut by a vindictive boss. And they can't find or afford a safe childcare situation for the hours before they were supposed to get home. Or maybe they left the child in the care of a relative who didn't care.
I expect there are some mothers who are poorly equipped to manage that common 12-14 mother-daughter rebellion and give up or give in. I mean I've known many caring parents who were poorly equipped for that, including a trained psychologist.
There are all kinds of reasons why these things might happen. Is it good? No. But it happens and that doesn't mean that it is ok for the kids to end up abused.
By your logic it is ok if some girl goes in to make porn and says she is 18. Or likely someone takes her in and says she is 18, looks at her and says, "Right" and she nods. No further proof needed, she's a consenting adult.
Next month I will have been selling glasses for 30 years. An easy 75% of my customers are female.
Long ago I gave up trying to figure out how young / old they are. I am constantly surprised as I see their actual DOB's as part of their medical records. I have simply given up guessing the age of women. I see 12 or 14 year old's that look 21 and 70 year old's that look 45 or 50 and everything in between.
Only a woman is going to have some sort of clue as to the actual age of other women. Men as a rule, are clueless.
Now go ahead and tell me how often you see a female's actual DOB in the course of your everyday life and actually find out if you guess a female's age correctly.
Despite lots of numbers that's still a sample size of one, namely you, which is the source of "a rule."
Using facial photos of target persons aged 12â18âyears, we investigated the effects of gender, age, and ethnicity of both targets (nâ=â240) and observers (nâ=â869) on the accuracy of age estimation. We also investigated the effects of targetsâ facial expressions (neutral or smiling), use of makeup, and photo quality. Participants overestimated the age of the adolescents by, on average, 3.51âyears. Participants overestimated the age of young adolescent girls to a greater extent than that of younger boys. Men made larger overestimations than women. Participants also estimated smiling targets as being older than targets with neutral facial expression, and the age of girls with makeup to be older than girls without makeup. Because there was considerable variation in the accuracy of estimations, and overestimates were common, we conclude that the ability of individuals to estimate the age of adolescents is generally low. This might have important legal implications.
Next month I will have been selling glasses for 30 years. An easy 75% of my customers are female.
Long ago I gave up trying to figure out how young / old they are. I am constantly surprised as I see their actual DOB's as part of their medical records. I have simply given up guessing the age of women. I see 12 or 14 year old's that look 21 and 70 year old's that look 45 or 50 and everything in between.
Only a woman is going to have some sort of clue as to the actual age of other women. Men as a rule, are clueless.
Now go ahead and tell me how often you see a female's actual DOB in the course of your everyday life and actually find out if you guess a female's age correctly.
Wow, take a break and can't even follow all the back and forth very well. So I'll just respond to bits where it seems fit in somewhat random order.
Kurt, You missed the "a lot" part of his statement. I believe that there are probably some, particularly because more often, there are some 18 year olds who do not look that old. There are not a lot of 12-14 year olds who look like a typical 18 year old. Additionally, there are probably very few 12-14 year olds who can behave like an 18 year old. For pushing prescriptions, it probably doesn't matter a lot. For dealing with sexual situations it is hugely important.
So you end up with a situation where disingenuous people feign ignorance and take advantage of it to abuse children. If you are going to run sex island, you bloody well better make sure your sex workers are of legal age and agree to every act. And if you are going to attend sex island you have the duty as an adult to be sure that whatever shit you are doing is being done to someone who is not being harmed.
Ok, the concept of affirmative consent is relatively new. But the concept of responsibility is not. If trump likes 18 year olds who look 12, he should goddam make sure that they aren't 12. If he engaged in kinky sex activities with someone who looked 12 or 14... or shit, even looked 18, he is an abuser, a creep, and a failure as a human being if they come out of the situation feeling that they were forced to do something they didn't want.
Now go ahead and tell me how often you see a female's actual DOB in the course of your everyday life and actually find out if you guess a female's age correctly.
I never see an actual DOB, but I can tell a 13-year-old isn't 18. Newsflash...so could Epstein, and Maxwell. It's not a mistake... it's a goal for the depraved. Your boy so much as said so.
I'm not following how this whole line of conversation started... and I'm not saying Trump did or didn't do anything... but your defending ignorance (at best) speaks volumes. Just in case...
I just had a conversation with her earlier on this very subject. A woman, a victim of both rape and incest.
You want to know what her first response was ? Where were the parents of these 12 and 13 year old girls ? How did they let them go to these kinds of places / parties in the first place ? Who lets their little girls go out all night long in circumstances like that ? Go ahead and find fault with her reaction.
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And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are
look who failed the training module called "What is consent?"
and for a guy who bristled so hard about this very topic recently, this is a bad take.
Please don't tell me there are a lot of 13-year-olds who look 18.
That is exactly what I am going to tell you.
Next month I will have been selling glasses for 30 years. An easy 75% of my customers are female.
Long ago I gave up trying to figure out how young / old they are. I am constantly surprised as I see their actual DOB's as part of their medical records. I have simply given up guessing the age of women. I see 12 or 14 year old's that look 21 and 70 year old's that look 45 or 50 and everything in between.
Only a woman is going to have some sort of clue as to the actual age of other women. Men as a rule, are clueless.
Now go ahead and tell me how often you see a female's actual DOB in the course of your everyday life and actually find out if you guess a female's age correctly.
I just had a conversation with her earlier on this very subject. A woman, a victim of both rape and incest.
You want to know what her first response was ? Where were the parents of these 12 and 13 year old girls ? How did they let them go to these kinds of places / parties in the first place ? Who lets their little girls go out all night long in circumstances like that ? Go ahead and find fault with her reaction.
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And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are concerned.
So if a 40-year-old man has sex with a 13-year-old who said she was 18, you want to blame the parents and give the 40-year-old a pass?
Please don't tell me there are a lot of 13-year-olds who look 18.
Now that abortions are harder to get... you better ask for ID. There are gonna be a lot more unwilling, disinterested parents in about 13 years. Of course... you likely won't be voting by then.
I simply don't know what you're trying to say here. Let me expand on my previous statements: I believe that you think rape is a horrible, awful criminal act. Certainly that seemed to case when you stated years ago that a relative—a cousin, perhaps—was raped by an illegal immigrant.
I just had a conversation with her earlier on this very subject. A woman, a victim of both rape and incest.
You want to know what her first response was ? Where were the parents of these 12 and 13 year old girls ? How did they let them go to these kinds of places / parties in the first place ? Who lets their little girls go out all night long in circumstances like that ? Go ahead and find fault with her reaction.
. And if these girls represent themselves as 18 years old, they are paid consenting adults as far as the participants are concerned.
Trump OTOH is judged the worst US president by a survey of historians. He's had many, many moments of confusion, garbled language, memory loss and brutal distortion of the past. Revolutionary War soldiers guarding our airports?
âWe won world wars out of forts."
âThey changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,â he said. âItâs unbelievable.â
Never gets old...
As "addled" as some people believe Joe is... I couldn't ever imagine him uttering anything close to that.
