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I think this depends on how far you extend the phrase "this kind of [comment]." Lewd comments, in the company of friends, and maybe not even entirely serious? Sure.
But this wasn't any of those things. For one, the comments weren't just lewd, they were actual descriptions of physical actions he said he does. "Look at the X on Y" is a lewd comment. "I can just go up and grab them" is a different thing altogether.
It also wasn't to a friend, or in private. It was to an interviewer he barely knew! What kind of person do you have to be to say that to a stranger, and a stranger in the media, and right after getting married?? Deeply insecure at best, and a total scoundrel, at worst.
But this wasn't any of those things. For one, the comments weren't just lewd, they were actual descriptions of physical actions he said he does. "Look at the X on Y" is a lewd comment. "I can just go up and grab them" is a different thing altogether.
It also wasn't to a friend, or in private. It was to an interviewer he barely knew! What kind of person do you have to be to say that to a stranger, and a stranger in the media, and right after getting married?? Deeply insecure at best, and a total scoundrel, at worst.
In this video fragment, however, he simply comes across as a typical dumb guy bragging about his success with women in an overstated way, in my opinion. He obviously sees Billy Bush as a momentary friend he can act tough to for a little while. I don't give those words the weight that many others are seemingly attributing to it. Maybe I'm wrong in doing that, but I don't see him as some kind of potential rapist because of what he said.
I think it's odd that the other cases that Miss Vicky posted about, for instance, didn't inspire this kind of controversy...
Maybe there's a problem with my personal environment, but I hear this kind of talk a lot, sometimes in even more graphical terms than Trump used. It's obviously very inappropriate and tasteless, but saying stuff in a kind of jokingly matter is still not the same as actually doing it, in my opinion. It's all just reasonably harmless, testosterone-inspired brainless tough talk to me.
Anyway, what I'm really afraid of, is that this will be seen as Donald's ultimate downfall and that all the other lessons politicians (and the public) should've learnt from Trump's candidacy and campaign will soon be forgotten, because it will seem like the "threat" of his actual presidency never existed. Instead, the only lesson most people will likely take away will (again) be something like: "avoid a sexual scandal". It's superficial and unimportant. There's much more essential stuff to take away from the past few months.
If America (and society in general) does not get a wake-up call, a blatantly populist (and potentially dangerous) candidate like Trump could rise again and might actually succeed in the future if he/she would just play it a little smarter, especially after a Hillary Clinton presidency...
The way this is progressing does not feel right to me. Maybe I'm overthinking this, though.
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anyway the global world order that we have will not last forever hence dangerous changes in the world's geopolitics will happen and that will be soon. Trump is not particularly dangerous to me, because I don't think it's actually hard to be president of the US. I was almost hoping for him to win to give a kick in the balls of the stablishment but he is indeed really bad and it would be a really bad thing for the US if he won and hence a bad thing for the world, although Hillary is bad too but it's a normal level of bad, Trump is crazy level of bad.