Why Trump’s sexism gamble might win

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Nate Silver has crunched the numbers and they are not pretty…

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…Trump needs to win 7 out of every 10 white males to win the election, no US President has ever done that before, but Trump’s deplorable sexual abuse boasting is aimed at that angry white male sense of a loss of privilege.

Most men are in a bubble when it comes to the abuse of women, and the explosion of social media has enabled women to let them know in no uncertain terms how vile they find the current systems of power. This has in turn sparked a ‘not all men’ backlash and Trump’s vileness is a cultural flare to those men.

I want Trump to lose because I genuinely fear the world he would usher in, but the ocean of deeply held misogyny is far larger than our social media echo chambers knowledge.

 

 

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  1. They used to say “we live in a mans world”

    So that has now changed dramatically!!!

    So now women need to share the power not own it.

    As men did before when it was a mans world, they held the power.

    If Women don’t share equally the power today, I as a man fear nothing will be gained, else they will only repeat the mistakes man has made during the “Mans world”

    I come from a time during the 1940’s-70’s when the saying and belief was “Females were the gentler sex” and I hope we don’t loose that nicety that the older generations never had this sexist storm going on nor maybe I’m just an old fashioned bloke whatever that means today.

    • ..some men are all bluster and Trump for all his locker room talk I do not believe is a serial abuser of women ( not one woman has come forward and said she was abused by Trump cf. this with Bill Clinton)

      I fear Clinton and Clinton more than Trump. Trump at least wants peace with Russia and in the Middle East

      I think Trump says a lot of things for effect like a showman/ comedian but underneath is a shrewd deal maker . The fact that he listens to General Flynn is a point in his favour

      • “not one woman has come forward and said she was abused by Trump”

        In the 1990s Trump’s ex-wife Ivana accused him of raping her (She’s since retracted this claim).
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/28/donald-trump-lawyer-threatens-reporter

        In 1997 Jill Harth said Trump groped her on several occasions without her consent, and even “attempted rape”.
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-jill-harth-interview

        And there’s a lawsuit against Trump claiming he raped a 13 year old in 1994.
        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html

        • Also, breaking news today shows Trump is a violent pig. I have no idea how anyone can take this buffoon seriously

          • Some here will not listen, they think anybody that runs against Hillary is their hero and therefore acceptable.

            • True Mike in Auckland.
              If Trump is the solution to the ‘establishment’, then bring on WWIII and end it all. We’re obviously out of solutions.

              Trump is a narcissistic, property speculating asshole. He’s a violent billionaire…voting for John Key in the wake of the GFC is one thing, but Trump is much worse. His policies and stance are ridiculous. A complete and utter farce.

              He says he’ll bomb ISIS back to the stone age (impossible), stop wars (create more power vacuums) and invest billions more into the military (when he’s stopping wars? WTF?). He’s an incoherent lunatic and he couldn’t contradict himself more if he tried. He lies non-stop. He’s going to send the fossil fuel industry into overdrive, screw over ethnic minorities and round up illegal immigrants. His demonetisation of Muslims will create more terrorism. And Putin is playing him – Eastern Europe will suffer and the EU will have to deal with it.

              How on earth could anyone remotely close to the left fall for this nonsense!

  2. “I want Trump to lose because I genuinely fear the world he would usher in…”
    I like that choice of words. You didn’t say “I want Hillary to win because…” presumably because… you can’t finish that sentence(?). There is NOTHING that a Hillary presidency is going to do to solve ANY of the world’s issues and we all know it. The 2016 US election being a choice between “the lesser of two evils” has never been a more apt description.

    • The future looks so bleak we all now fear what is left for our youth today after we failed in our stewardship of this last 70 yrs after the end of WW2.

      We now have a monster at the front gate about to reap havoc upon us all in Hillary Clinton the champion of the war mongering set of 2 Koch brothers & Kissinger (KKK) and far worse than the KKK we always riled as evil doers should now be aligned with Hillary Clinton as they are her guidance..

  3. Trump is certainly NOT a paragon of virtue with his treatment of women. So what was his point of having Bill Clinton accusers present? To take the heat away from himself? Or, “Yeah, I’m bad, but check out this guy.”
    Maybe it would’ve made a little sense (MAYBE) if the Don was running against Bill, but he’s not. He’s running against Bill’s wife(?) Hillary.
    Just another case of the pot calling the kettle black.

  4. Hillary Clinton i have always thought will be a divisive president and will be at war with Russia within a year to 18 months.
    Will safeguard the neo liberal economic order and its lethal effect on the long suffering working american and their families.
    If she was sincere about really helping them and was not compromised by corporate money and vested interests then Bernie Sanders would not have had a reason to campaign and the Democratic elite would not have conspired to make sure he was knee capped to make sure he didnot get the nomination.

    Trump by trying to be popular and anti establishment is promising to improve the lot of the average Joe but cant because to do so would mean changing the economic order that has made people like him powerful and filthy rich.

    The losers once again are the american people who get led up the garden path and sold a lemon every four years in the name of democracy.

    • Like they did under the Blair/bush era that still simmers under a war crime’s cloud.
      Both sides are bad in the past.

      Only Trump has defined the issue by signalling to work with Russia as a former ally against Nazism in WW2.

      Remember that NAZI element still exists today!!!!!!

      So we are wise to stay with allies rather than the devil we don’t know.

  5. If Trump wins the US will be an international laughing stock.
    Apart from thugs like Putin and the Saudi war criminals just about anyone outside of America thinks Trump is a silly little boy who desperately needs a good spanking. Like Kim Jung un in North Korea but a whole lot more powerful.
    If Trump wins the US will have only isolation and protectionism to look forward to because its traditional allies in Europe will be reluctant to deal with a man who thinks torture and war are good.
    But if the US people want someone like that to lead them, then they shouldn’t complain when he leads them into war and makes them into international pariahs.

  6. “Trump’s deplorable sexual abuse boasting”

    There’s a whole lot of hypocrisy going on here. From the media, his opposition and women in general.

    When they think no man is listening, women say similar things. Given a glass of wine at a hen night, they’re ten time worse.

    • Comparing women at a hen night with a presidential candidate is moronic.
      Understanding context and power are important. It’s pretty basic Andrew.

    • Given a six pack or more, some men do anything, even rape a woman, thinking she “must be” attracted to a drunk rapist.

  7. Trump is gone, the US MSM have launched an effective campaign:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/three-women-accuse-trump-inappropriately-touching-them-years-apart-reports-n665491

    Whether there is something to this allegations or not, it does not matter, the damage will be done. One wonders again, why after so many years, do they suddenly come forward.

    But this is how it goes. Trump is facing a situation that does not look good. Few women will vote for him, leaving perhaps the “hot blooded” mostly white, disgruntled folk, who have no other heroes left.

  8. Perhaps NZ would be well advised to review its relationship with the US, White House, Pentagon, NSA and so forth, but the government here has NO guts to do it, it is a self serving little mercenary government, same as the SHIT media here is totally subservient to US and UK and Australian commercial interests, we never get the truth anyway, based on what they “report”

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